Sugared Pretzels: My holidays with Marie
Children & Young Adult, Children's Books, Children's Books Age 8+, Children's Books Friends / Family
A holiday adventure story about first love
It’s day one of the holiday in France—the first day at the beach. When ten-year-old Max sets eyes on Marie, a French girl his own age, it’s like he’s been struck by lightning. From that point on, she’s all he can think about, from her dark hair with that super-cute barrette all the way down to her tanned toes—and those delicious sugared pretzels she sells from her hawker’s tray on the beach. She’s selling them to raise money to buy an old sick neighbour’s horse. The animal will be sold to the highest bidder if she doesn’t buy it first. For Max it’s a no-brainer: he has to help Marie.
• a heart-warming holiday tale of the adventure that is first love
• Didier Laget, the author’s partner, had a similar experience of falling in love at the age of ten, and the two of them collaborated on turning it into a delightful children’s story.
Didier Laget was born in 1957 in France and spent many years touring the length and breadth of Europe as a guitarist for various bands. He is also a visual artist as well as writing books for children and young readers in collaboration with Beate Dölling.
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Beate Dölling works as a freelance journalist and author for Deutschland Radio Berlin and various print media, as well as running writing workshops. She has won numerous grants for her literary works, which have been published in anthologies, magazines and newspapers.
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Joëlle Tourlonias is a young and extremely successful illustrator with a French background who lives in Düsseldorf. She studied visual communication at Weimar’s Bauhaus University and set out as a freelance artist in 2009; since then she has illustrated many children’s books.
A holiday adventure story about first love
It’s day one of the holiday in France—the first day at the beach. When ten-year-old Max sets eyes on Marie, a French girl his own age, it’s like he’s been struck by lightning. From that point on, she’s all he can think about, from her dark hair with that super-cute barrette all the way down to her tanned toes—and those delicious sugared pretzels she sells from her hawker’s tray on the beach. She’s selling them to raise money to buy an old sick neighbour’s horse. The animal will be sold to the highest bidder if she doesn’t buy it first. For Max it’s a no-brainer: he has to help Marie.
• a heart-warming holiday tale of the adventure that is first love
• Didier Laget, the author’s partner, had a similar experience of falling in love at the age of ten, and the two of them collaborated on turning it into a delightful children’s story.