What to read this week? 3 stories for traveling, by Olivia de Lamberterie

To laugh

In “Roman rivière”, Philibert Humm played freshwater sailors, in “Roman de gare”, he becomes a “hobo”, in the tradition of these vagabonds who traveled from train to train, from town to town… But, have you ever tried to stowaway on a freight train? Philibert and his friend Simon, yes! And the capture of Villeneuve station is irresistibly comical. Like this story which makes you laugh on its own, which has the humor of English novels and the charm of “Magnifique”, by Philippe de Broca with Jean-Paul Belmondo.

“Station novel”, by Philibert Humm (The Equators)

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To disobey

It is May 1980, Ilaria is 8 years old, she loves her mother, her big sister, playing the hanging pig and Nadia Comaneci, life a little less since her parents separated. Surprise ! Her father comes to pick her up from school… A long road trip begins in a smoke-filled car, punctuated by stops in telephone booths where the little girl watches her father lose his temper. Torn between her desire to please him and the anxiety that her mother no longer loves her, she evolves in a world where adults whisper as she passes by. A novel of learning about freedom of incredible simplicity and sensitivity. Often, like Ilaria, we have a weight on our chest, but in the end, we smile at the angels of beauty.

“Ilaria or the conquest of disobedience”, by Gabriella Zalapi (Zoé)

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For pleasure

The author of “My Dumbest Cat in the World” is back with Eliot, a rabbit who has decided to undertake a quest. But of what? The future will tell him, the world has no shortage of princesses to rescue. But before leaving, he stops at the hypermarquête! Gilles Bachelet's new album is full of images, puns, jokes, pastiches and inventiveness. To be read with four eyes, children and parents to grasp and savor everything.

“The hyperbrand”, by Gilles Bachelet (Seuil jeunesse)

The hyperbrand of Gilles Bachelet

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