The festival dedicated to history books and historical fiction made a stop at the Casa Salvini in L’Île-Rousse this Friday, mobilizing four children’s authors and numerous schoolchildren around games and debates.
For its third edition, Story(s) in May took a getaway in Balagne. THE festival dedicated to books ofhistory and to the historical fiction moved, by train from Bastiafour children’s authors as well as a CM2 class from the René Subissi school.
Arriving at their destination, the Bastiais were welcomed at Casa Salvini by CM1 schoolchildren from the Albert Camus school in L’Île-Rousse. An escape game awaited around fifty children.
The corsair’s treasure
This game, based on a real historical character, the privateer Guglielmo Lorenzi, aimed to find a treasure. Arsène Lupine constituted the common thread of this quest, thickening a mysterious atmosphere as desired…
To progress in the story, the player-readers were forced to solve the puzzles, thus each time accessing a small additional part of the story in which they had to progress. In addition to the pleasure of playing that it gives children, the activity has proven educational benefits. The reward for all took the form of a festive snack, very appreciated after the efforts, since these students played in groups, looked for pieces of history, had to write, compose an evolving story, develop illustrations, exercise their faculties by looking for clues through comparison games.
A discovery of the writing profession
A partnership established by the city of Bastia, via the Media Library network and especially the Cité Éducative, made this meeting of young audiences from two towns in Corsica, at the heart of Histoire(s) possible in May.
While the escape game monopolized Bertrand Puard at Casa Salvini, the three other authors went to the Pascal Paoli college on L’Île Rousse. Carina Rosenfeld, Maxime Fontaine and Anouk Langaney met with the 4th grade classes there to discuss their works, previously read by these middle school students under the guidance of their teachers. Whatever their age, young audiences are very keen on information about the writing profession, and the context of school exchanges invariably proves very fruitful. On Île Rousse, the Artelibri association allows middle school students to acquire works by the authors of Histoire(s) in May at the CDI and at the Ambrogi bookstore, thanks to the pass cultura.
Transmitting history and literature in a fun way is a priority for Histoire(s) en mai. This is why the event has significantly expanded its actions aimed at school audiences, and its proposal for public reading is expanding geographically. What could be more logical than meeting the public of tomorrow?
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