Welcome to the little world of Camille
Children love these books featuring the adventures of Camille. They have been best sellers throughout the French speaking world for the last nineteen years, and have been translated into twenty five languages, published in eighty countries, and have sold more than five million copies. They are now available in English for the first time, and have been completely redesigned as bilingual books for use as teaching aids. With the stories by Aline de Pétigny and the illustrations by Nancy Delvaux, they have a unique old fashioned charm loved by children and parents everywhere.
Camille has had a nightmare, and thinks that Teddy has been bullying her and her dollies, and she doesn’t want to talk about it. Fortunately, Mummy is able to prove that Teddy has done nothing of the sort, and that he is still the same old Teddy. It does end up costing her money though…
Camille has to go to the doctor’s for an injection, which her friend told her was jolly painful, although the doctor did give her a sweetie afterwards to make up for all the suffering. Camille is not overly keen on the idea, even with the prospect of a sweetie afterwards, so she thinks of a cunning plan…
Camille has heard about the new slide at the park, and is very keen to try it out. The weather hasn’t been very good recently, but the television forecast last night gave her some hope for today. Aunt Nathalie and Martin are going with them but Camille thinks Martin is too small to go on the slide…
There’s a new boy at school, and he said that he wants to marry Camille.
But there is a problem; Bérénice says that he is going to marry her! Well,
Camille makes sure that she is looking her very best that day, and wearing her prettiest dress, in order make sure that the right woman wins….
At school yesterday, one of Camille’s friends had an unfortunate accident in the playground, and that horrible boy Maxime laughed and said that it was only babies who did that. Camille knew that such a thing couldn’t possibly happen to her,
BUT…
Camille’s two friends have come to her house to play, but Camille doesn’t like it when they play with her toys. Mummy tells her that when we love people we have to lend them our things, which turns out to have some unexpected consequences for mummy…
Daddy has made a magnificent cake for tonight, when mummy’s friends are coming to tea. The sort of cake that you see in a cake shop, and it looks absolutely delicious. Camille tastes just a tiny bit, as nobody will notice….
Camille needs a bath but she thinks that’s a terrible waste of water, as she had one only yesterday. She decides to show Mummy what she can do just by using a flannel and that stuff that smells nice….
Its time for bed but Camille isn’t tired. And besides, she’s extremely busy playing with her toys. So she quietly slips out of bed so that Mummy and Daddy won’t hear, and continues to play. But…