Laura Bennevault is a very active young children's author and the month of December she just spent was very important for her. “I have just participated in two trade fairs, Castelnau-de-Médoc and Paris, where, moreover, my book “Mémé Roc, Papy Blues” was a favorite,” she begins.
To her credit, numerous titles: “Bizarroid stories and other quirky tales”, “Kissmi or the extraordinary adventures of a cat on the move”, “The Voice of the Wolf”… This year, the Cissacaise wrote two novels: “Mémé Roc, Papy Blues” for pre-teens aged 9 to 12, and “Minus” for older children.
Optimism
The first tells the story of a teenager, Joséphine, who has to go on vacation to her grandmother's house, but as she returns in 6eshe prefers not to go. Her grandmother cultivates her vegetable garden, watches her soap operas and the young girl is bored. She meets a boy her age who is spending the holidays with his grandfather, who is much funnier, so the two teenagers would like to bring them together. Will they succeed? The answer is in the book.
The second is not as cheerful: a 17-year-old girl finds herself at the bedside of her mother who attempted suicide, and learns where she comes from just then. “There is always an optimistic side in my books,” confesses Laura Bennevault. I'm not saying how the story ends. »
This book was selected by the Department of Gironde for the Collégiens readers prize, the winners of which will be known next June. And as Laura Bennevault likes to write – she admits to having written since she was a child – a new book will be released in 2025. Her granddaughter Juliette, 6 years old, will be the heroine.
Well known in Médoc, this graduate of a master's degree in literature runs numerous workshops, notably at the Pauillac college, and travels to regional fairs. She accepts all invitations from media libraries to present her works.
