Pierre Lapin (Peter Rabbit)

by Beatrix Potter, Alfred Music (Translation)

Pierre Lapin s'aventure, malgré l'interdiction de sa maman, dans le jardin de M. MacGregor... Une folle poursuite s'engage ! Titre recommandé par le ministère de l'Éducation nationale, pour le cycle 1 de l'école primaire (école maternelle).

Genres: France

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.

Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.

In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.

Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.

In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.

Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.

Reviews

[La Coccinelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

This French version is somewhat better than the condensed English version I just read. It doesn't seem to have cut anything out. However, something is lost in translation. The charm of Potter's original words just isn't here.

I need to track down a copy of the original English version.

[Sarah Spence · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mon compréhension est bon, mais je veux améliorer. Je lis ce livre avec Le Projet Gutenberg, mais je ne sais pas si le livre est sans le fin. Le fin est soudaine, et je ne lis ce livre avant. Est-ce que le fin censé être comme ça?
Aussi, toutes de recommendations de livres pour enfants en Français?

[Sourimak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quelle délicatesse dans les tons pastels des illustrations légendaires de Pierre Lapin.
Une aventure où l'on tremble aux côtés de Pierre qui n'a pas écouté les avertissements de sa maman... et doit à présent échapper au terrible Mc Gregor qui déteste voir les lapins dans son jardin, mais les adore dans son assiette...

[Abigail · Rating 5 out of 5]

My French is poor, but with the help of a French/English dictionary and my memory of the original English, I could follow the gist.

[Counting for "A book of 100 pages or less" in Challies 2017 Reading Challenge.]

[Sally · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excited that I only had to look once or twice in the French dictionary for help!

[Christie-anne]

For some reason I have a french edition of this book. It reminded me how much french I could still read and understand, and how much I couldn’t.

Sweet, classic book.

[Lea_ecrit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Il était temps de lire un album plus classique
Les illustrations sont magnifiques

[Poet | Artist · Rating 3 out of 5]

( i thought it as gonna be a bit longer but oh well ) i know irs a kids book but i actually like it, it's really cute

[Space Panda · Rating 5 out of 5]

J'adore, c'est tellement mignon et tous les dessins sont très tendre.

[Hamisoitil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ce n'est pas pour rien qu'il faut toujours écouter les parents ! Hé oui, ils connaissent souvent les dangers qui nous entourent et si on dit aux enfants de ne pas s'éloigner, ce n'est pas pour le plaisir de parler.
Pierre Lapin a compris et ne recommencera plus, à mon avis !