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Timothée de Fombelle

Author of Toby Alone

25+ Works 1,675 Members 110 Reviews

About the Author

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Series

Works by Timothée de Fombelle

Toby Alone (2006) 473 copies
Vango: Between Sky and Earth (2010) 381 copies
The Book of Pearl (2014) 151 copies
Captain Rosalie (2014) — Author — 51 copies
Saving Celeste (2007) 46 copies
Victoria rêve (2012) 17 copies
Gramercy Park (2018) 17 copies
101 Ways To Read A Book (2022) 12 copies
Vango (2012) 7 copies
Neverland (2017) 7 copies

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Canonical name
Fombelle, Timothée de
Birthdate
1973-04-17
Gender
male
Nationality
France

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Reviews

Saving Celeste Review

I enjoyed this book! I liked the climate change link-up as well, which made me think quite deeply about what this planet would be like in a century! This is a great dystopian novel that I would highly recommend teenagers to read. 4 and a half/5 stars!
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AA1706 | 1 other review | Jan 9, 2024 |
Sounds kinda like Ferngully, but I may give it a try.
 
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LibrarianDest | 17 other reviews | Jan 3, 2024 |
First line: J'ai un secret.

Rosalie is a precocious five and a half year old girl who lives with her mother in a French village, her father away fighting in World War I. When her mother begins working in a munitions factory, she makes a deal with the teacher of eight year old boys to let Rosalie sit in the back of the classroom and draw. Captaine Rosalie wiles away the hours by pretending to be a spy on a secret mission vital to the war effort.

In the evenings, her mother reads letters from her father, but Rosalie is suspicious that her mother is fabricating some of the stories she tells about going fishing when he returns and eating delicious food. One day she sneaks back to the empty house to read the letters for herself. Although she can't read all the words, some jump out at her, and they are not words that her mother has read to her:

Je n'ai pas plus assez de souffle pour suivre l'écriture escarpée de mon père, mais je prends les petits mots du papier, ceux qui me sautent au visage dès que je me penche.

Le mot rats, le mot sang, le mot peur.

This poignant story of a child's life on the homefront is particularly sweet because Rosalie is such an intelligent, creative, and brave little girl. Heavily illustrated by gorgeous illustrations by Isabelle Arsenault, the story was easy enough for me to follow, yet it is not a children's book per se. Instead it is a story told from the perspective of a child, but with complex overtones. I loved it.
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labfs39 | 7 other reviews | Oct 29, 2023 |

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Isabelle Arsenault Illustrator
Éloïse Scherrer Illustrator
Tobias Scheffel Translator
Sarah Ardizzone Translator
Eef Gratama Translator
Sabine Grebing Translator
Sam Gordon Translator

Statistics

Works
25
Also by
1
Members
1,675
Popularity
#15,349
Rating
4.1
Reviews
110
ISBNs
194
Languages
16

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