Valérie Dayre
reading for school classes
International Children’s and Youth Literature
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Summer vacation, raging heat and an avalanche of cars on the highway. Lili and her parents are on their way to the sea. Finally, a service stop! Suddenly, the parents disappear without a trace. In her novel “That’s life, Lili”, Valérie Dayre (France) tells how Lili is left behind at the highway services, looked after by the kiosk-owner Solange, and keeps track of her thoughts in a diary.
7th/8th grade
Valérie Dayre was born in France in 1958 and is the author of more than 15 children’s and young people’s books, as well as picture book stories in which she forcefully focuses on the fears of the souls of children and young people, and confronts her young readers with a dizzying game made up of fantasy, dream and reality. Her children’s novel ‘C’est la vie, Lili’ (1991; t: That’s life, Lili) tells the story of the twelve year old Lilie, who is left behind by her parents at a motorway service station. Dayre’s picture book ‘L’Ogresse en pleurs’ (1996; t: The child-eater), illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch, is a modern parable about the unknown in people. The author lives in Berry in central France.
Registration required at (030) 27 87 86 66
Summer vacation, raging heat and an avalanche of cars on the highway. Lili and her parents are on their way to the sea. Finally, a service stop! Suddenly, the parents disappear without a trace. In her novel “That’s life, Lili”, Valérie Dayre (France) tells how Lili is left behind at the highway services, looked after by the kiosk-owner Solange, and keeps track of her thoughts in a diary.
7th/8th grade
Valérie Dayre was born in France in 1958 and is the author of more than 15 children’s and young people’s books, as well as picture book stories in which she forcefully focuses on the fears of the souls of children and young people, and confronts her young readers with a dizzying game made up of fantasy, dream and reality. Her children’s novel ‘C’est la vie, Lili’ (1991; t: That’s life, Lili) tells the story of the twelve year old Lilie, who is left behind by her parents at a motorway service station. Dayre’s picture book ‘L’Ogresse en pleurs’ (1996; t: The child-eater), illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch, is a modern parable about the unknown in people. The author lives in Berry in central France.