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Nicholas
René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé
#UB5882
Hardcover, 127 pages; 2007
$11.90
This afternoon I ran into Alec on my way to school and he said, "Suppose we play hooky?" I told him that would be naughty and our teacher wouldn't be pleased, and Dad had told me you had to work if you wanted to get on in life and be an air force man, and Mom would be sad and it was wicked to tell lies. Alec reminded me it was math this afternoon, so I said, "OK," and we didn't go to school.
If Pippi, Dennis, and Eloise were your childhood friends, you'll want to meet Nicholas, the endearingly mischievous French schoolboy whose adventures are chronicled in diverting stories and droll little pen-and-ink illustrations. The collection of stories in Nicholas offers the kind of humor that both children and their parents find funny, which means that they're more likely to be read. While the writing, translated from the original French, has a flavor of the 1960s, the antics clearly transcend time and distance. Boys will be boys-in any place, at any time, and in any language!
(EE)
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