Learn French with Monsieur Roscoe in Jim Field's debut author/illustrator picture book. Monsieur Roscoe is off on his summer holiday, meeting friends and learning lots of new words in French along the way!
Join Monsieur Roscoe as he camps, skis, sails and eats his way through France on the holiday of a lifetime!
A fun and colourful picture book from the bestselling illustrator of Oi Frog! and The Lion Inside, Monsieur Roscoe will make learning French exciting for the youngest children. Each new word appears alongside its English translation, so readers can follow along with ease.
Jim Field is a lead-driven, pencil-pushing, 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan. He is also a hugely talented award-winning illustrator, character designer and animation director. He has worked on a variety of projects, from music videos and title sequences to advertising and books.
His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway award. He has since illustrated a string of bestselling, multi-award-winning children's books, including Oi Frog! and The Lion Inside, as well as young fiction series Rabbit and Bear, middlegrade novels by David Baddiel and his debut author-illustrator picture book Monsieur Roscoe - On Holiday, a bilingual book that introduces first French words. He grew up in Farnborough, worked in London and now lives in Paris with his wife and young daughter.
Title: Monsieur Roscoe on Holiday
Author: Field, Jim
ISBN: 9781444932676
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Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Publication Date: 2020-07-09
Number of Pages: 32
Weight: 0.5201 kg
a jolly travelogue and French language lesson...a sweet and accessible story with enticing pictures -- Alex O'Connell * The Times, Children's Book of the Week *
rich in comic incident... [and] rewarding to pore over -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times, Children's Book of the Week *
