Magali Le Huche
Author of Poppy and the Orchestra
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Por de la foscor? Jo? 1 copy
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J'aime lire magazine. N° 440, Septembre 2013 : Une famille pour Ramsès (2013) — Illustrator — 2 copies
J'aime lire magazine. N° 385, Février 2009 : Opération Mémé — Illustrator — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Le Huche, Magali
- Legal name
- Le Huche, Magali
- Birthdate
- 1979
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg
- Short biography
- Magali Le Huche est une auteure et illustratrice française.
Magali Le Huche, après une année à la faculté d’arts plastiques, puis une autre à l’atelier de Sèvres, a ensuite été formée aux Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg pendant 5 ans. Elle y a notamment suivi l'enseignement de Claude Lapointe. Avec d’autres anciennes élèves de cette école, elle a fondé l’association « Ô Mazette ». Par ce biais, elle organise des expositions et des ateliers pour enfants.
Son album "Les sirènes de Belpêchao", chez Didier Jeunesse, a remporté le Prix Sorcière en 2006.
En 2021, chez Dargaud, elle signe "Nowhere girl". Elle y explore ses années d'entrée au collège, où elle a connu à la fois une période de phobie scolaire et une passion dévorante pour les Beatles13. Le titre de la bande dessinée est une allusion à leur chanson Nowhere Man. L'album est « Pépite » 2021 du Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse14, dans la catégorie Bande dessinée.
Elle fait régulièrement des ateliers avec les enfants.
Elle vit et travaille à Paris. - Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Map Location
- France
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Quite a unique graphical memoir, this. But it could have been so much better.
Magali is an eleven year old with super-achiever psychologist parents and an elder sister who is brilliant at school. Magali hence finds herself burdened under the spoken and unspoken expectations of everyone around her. Her terrible anxiety creates a phobia of school that soon generates psychosomatic effects. While she is being home-schooled during this phase, she discovers The Beatles. The rest of the story is show more about the impact their music made on her life and the way she battled her mental struggled to resume active schooling.
On the face of it, the concept is fabulous. Teenage struggles with expectations, bodily anxieties and social dilemmas are pretty common. But to see music from many decades before coming to the rescue is novel. However, where the book falls short is in the detailing. The story seems to jump over the hows and whys of Magali’s problem and just reveals the whats.
The graphical part is good, not great. The earlier pages in the book are primarily white, gray and pink, depicting Magali’s bleak view of life. But with the Beatles introduced, coloured swirls start making an appearance. However, the pages are quite cluttered. There are parallel narratives unfolding on many of the pages, where the illustrations follow one story track and the background script narrates another. It makes for a cramped experience. The font is the biggest disappointment. When everything written in small case cursive, I had to really strain my eyes to understand the lines.
Overall, this might be a one-time read, but nothing exceptional.
Thank you, NetGalley and Europe Comics, for the ARC of the book in exchange for an honest review.
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Magali is an eleven year old with super-achiever psychologist parents and an elder sister who is brilliant at school. Magali hence finds herself burdened under the spoken and unspoken expectations of everyone around her. Her terrible anxiety creates a phobia of school that soon generates psychosomatic effects. While she is being home-schooled during this phase, she discovers The Beatles. The rest of the story is show more about the impact their music made on her life and the way she battled her mental struggled to resume active schooling.
On the face of it, the concept is fabulous. Teenage struggles with expectations, bodily anxieties and social dilemmas are pretty common. But to see music from many decades before coming to the rescue is novel. However, where the book falls short is in the detailing. The story seems to jump over the hows and whys of Magali’s problem and just reveals the whats.
The graphical part is good, not great. The earlier pages in the book are primarily white, gray and pink, depicting Magali’s bleak view of life. But with the Beatles introduced, coloured swirls start making an appearance. However, the pages are quite cluttered. There are parallel narratives unfolding on many of the pages, where the illustrations follow one story track and the background script narrates another. It makes for a cramped experience. The font is the biggest disappointment. When everything written in small case cursive, I had to really strain my eyes to understand the lines.
Overall, this might be a one-time read, but nothing exceptional.
Thank you, NetGalley and Europe Comics, for the ARC of the book in exchange for an honest review.
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Join me on the Facebook group, Readers Forever!, for more reviews, book-related discussions and fun.
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Sheep 56 remembers how to talk after he is jolted back to intelligence by the electric fence on his shepard's farm. The shepard is a patient man and he listens with open ears as the sheep tells his story about how all sheep used to have the ability to talk but have since lost it. The shepard decides to leave his farm, follow the sheep and teach other sheep that they, too, can remember to how to speak.
This book includes some environmental topics about how to take better care of the planet and show more how to avoid destructive human behaviors that lead to war. (The sheep had a big war and the result was that they became stupid.) I think this book would be a good addition to a lesson on the importance of taking care of the planet, and each other. show less
This book includes some environmental topics about how to take better care of the planet and show more how to avoid destructive human behaviors that lead to war. (The sheep had a big war and the result was that they became stupid.) I think this book would be a good addition to a lesson on the importance of taking care of the planet, and each other. show less
The details in this book were so cool. There is really no storyline. We see the World of Pascal the platypus and his friends. the illustrations are very sharp and clean and the more you see each page the more you find about Pascal's curious world.
L’adaptation d’un roman plein de bons sentiments qui a eu un certain succès depuis sa sortie au rayon jeunesse. Tous les ingrédients sont là, rien de très original. Pour moi ce sera une bd vite lue, vite oubliée, mais je ne suis pas le public cible. Les jeunes filles qui peinent à s’accepter, surtout physiquement, s’y retrouveront peut-être et cela leur donnera peut-être la force de passer outre le regard des autres quand c’est un regard qui jauge et qui juge.
Dec 24, 2023French
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