Catherine Certitude Tapa dura - 2015

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Godine Publisher, David R., 2001. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston. 2015. David Godine. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780879239596. Illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe. 64 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Jean-Jacques Sempe. keywords: Literature france Translated Young Adult. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This charming book will delight any child or adult who appreciates ballet, Paris, New York, childhood, and mystery (not necessarily in that order). The book's plot is deceptively simple: Catherine, the eponymous heroine, begins her story watching her own daughter demonstrate jazz steps in their ballet school on a snowy afternoon in New York. Memory takes her (and the reader) back to her childhood, spent in the tenth arrondissement of Paris. In her youth, Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Certitude, who runs a shipping business with his partner, a loud, failed poet named Casterade. The real partners in this story, however, are the father and daughter who share the simple pleasures of daily life: sitting in the church square, walking to school,… Leer más

David R. Godine, Publisher, USA 2015.. 2015. Hardcover. 4to. hardcover. 59pp. colour illus. Near Fine./ Very good d/w. .

David R Godine, 2001. Hardcover. A read-aloud for children from Patrick Modiano, a Nobel Prize winner in literature. "A quirky and utterly charming chapter book in picture-book format, with the famed illustrator Sempe's radiant and adorable illustrations."--Booklist In this enchanting picture book about intangible memories, Catherine Certitude, a dancer in Paris, reminisces about her childhood. She remembers living with her dreamer of a father--whose storefront 'package business' may have been a smuggling operation, her American mother's letters from the States ('Sometimes Mama made spelling mistakes'), her ballet lessons with a tragic woman who feigns a Russian accent, and her father's humiliation at a society party where he pathetically pretends to be rich ('His brown suit clashed with everyone else's light, summery clothes'). As Publishers Weekly said, "This lovely book suggests the delicacy and strength of an eggshell. It demands a nuanced understanding of the past ('We always stay the same, and… Leer más

Boston: David R Godine, 2015. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Sempe, Jean-Jacques. 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempe. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 351076

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

David R. Godine, Publisher, 2001-02-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!