Children's Fiction Military & Wars
Histoire de Galet
- Publisher
- Bouton d'or Acadie
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2016
- Category
- Military & Wars
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9782897500405
- Publish Date
- Nov 2016
- List Price
- $12.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 8 to 12
- Grade: 3 to 7
Description
Martin is a teenager living in Dieppe. War rages on, and his country, France, is under Nazi occupation. Cohabitation is tough, and living conditions are poor. While living with Mrs. Agnes, a resourceful old lady, Martin is unwillingly dragged into the horrible conflict of the Second World War and makes a life-changing discovery...
About the authors
From Moncton, New-Brunswick, filmmaker and writer Marie Cadieux is since 2012 the executi ve and literary director of Bouton d?or Acadie. She published, almongst others, a short story book called Enfance et autres fissures, which was shortlisted for the Antonine-Maillet-Acadie-Vie award. She also wrote, with regretted Acadian singer-songwriter Angèle Arsenault and storyteller Marie-France Comeau, the picture-book Le Pit à papa. Her first collaboration with François Dimberton, the novel Histoire de Galet, was awarded the Champlain literary prize in 2018.
François Dimberton started his career in the middle of the 70's as the cartoonist of Pif le chien adventures, and continuing onwith magazines such as Spirou, Tintin, Mickey, and many other Franco-Belgian cartoon publishers. At Bouton d?or Acadie, he also created with Jean-Claude Bauer the famous Coin-Coin series.
