Customer Reviews

L'Arbre Genereux (The Giving Tree), French Edition

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I purchased this book to slowly introduce poetry to my grandson, as the author is a favorite of is mother's.

Jackson is only 18 months old. His vocabulary French and English is beyond that of a two year old. Still, we are going to go very slowly. We have completed the first two pages and he now comprehends them.

I think that it will be best used and understood when he is about 9 and reading himself. For that reason I have put the book away for a few years.

I adore the works of Shel Silverstein and I desperately want to speak and understand the French language.. This book is perfect for a novice like me and the story is wonderful and heartwarming..

I got this for Christmas for my sibling who got her degree in French. It was such a perfect gift as we owned this book in English when we were growing up!

This French version of Shel Silverstein's beloved children's story will be familiar because the illustrations are the same as the English edition. I was disappointed that it is in paperback and is not as large as the version in English. I purchased it to give to an American family with three young daughters that is hosting a little girl from Haiti who is in U.S. for surgery and recuperation from injuries caused by the earthquake there. I wanted something she could understand and that would be familiar to her little American hostesses. It certainly filled the bill on both counts, so I guess the size was not really an issue. Buyers should be aware that this is a smaller format.

Although the story line is probably much more appreciated by adults then kids and a wee sad.

This well-known children's book is a super way to introduce beginning language learners to French. Even children without a foreign language background can learn to make associations with the language.