ABC Short Stories: Children Book

by Jules Lemaître

Jules Lemaître loved children. He had himself, when he was a professor at Grenoble, a daughter, Madeleine, who died after a month and he never consoled. Later he became a multiple and delicious godfather. Everyone knows the charming stories written for his godchildren. In Paris, in his large studio in the Rue d'Artois, lined with pale gold of precious bindings, Jules Lemaître was pleased to receive children, gobble them with cakes and sweets and opened for them a mysterious chest of his library, which then spread on the carpet the most unexpected toys, collected with almost as much love as books. Thus he was led to write an Alphabet

61 pages, Paperback

First published May 22, 2010

About the author

François Élie Jules Lemaître was a French critic and dramatist.

Reviews

[Elizabeth]

A very nice alphabet book for children. Each letter stands for a word, and each word is the topic of a mini story, almost a vignette, most of which are 1 to 3 paragraphs long. The topics vary widely. Cute, vintage, and quaint.