Pierre & Paul: Avalanche!

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Pub Date Mar 15 2020 | Archive Date Mar 26 2020

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Description

Pierre and Paul are neighbors, friends, and explorers. Pierre speaks French and Paul speaks English, but that doesn’t stop them from sharing their adventures. The boys imagine everyday situations into grand exploits—today, they are climbing the Himalayas!

To fuel their journey, they decide to make a mountainous sandwich. Pierre and Paul add ingredients until the sandwich staggers, topples, and…avalanche! Ham and fromage, laitue and cucumber jumble until they become a salad. The boys don’t really like salad…but explorers have to be brave.

This story is told half in French and half in English, with simple phrasing and visual cues in the illustrations making the story easy for early readers to decode in both languages. Illustrations in a loose, colorful style make this vocabulary-learning tool also an engaging story of friendship and imagination.

Pierre and Paul are neighbors, friends, and explorers. Pierre speaks French and Paul speaks English, but that doesn’t stop them from sharing their adventures. The boys imagine everyday situations...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781771473279
PRICE $18.95 (USD)
PAGES 32

Average rating from 15 members


Featured Reviews

Pierre & Paul: Avalanche is a cute story about two young explorers heading out on a grand adventure. They barely get started before they realize that they have forgotten to bring snacks. Quickly they head home and begin to build a sandwich. Unfortunately, the two explorers declare the sandwich to be too dull for their adventurous ways. Just then, Pierre & Paul decide to explore with their food and build the world's most adventurous sandwich ever!

Pierre & Paul: Avalanche is a story told from two different languages. What is unique about this story is that both languages carry the story further. Most dual-language stories are just a repetition of the primary language exactly. This is not the case with this story. Instead, the languages piggy-back off of each other, and even at times, the languages are utilized in isolation of each other.

The dual-language utilization makes this picture book a challenge! Readers are going go have to infer closely in order to follow the events of the story. I think this is a great trait of the story, and it offers a multicultural experience for readers.

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This book is super cute and I will definitely be buying it for our library! I love that it's dual language, but not an exact translation side by side. Super creative and fun! I know our students will love it!

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