Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life Of Julia Child (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
What a fun book! From the detailed end papers to the handwritten text to the humorous paintings, this version of Julia Child's life embodies her strong, larger-than-life personality. Readers will learn all the basics about Child's life, but this format seems to expansively give lots of room for the idiosyncratic details that bring Child to life. (It is also 16 pages longer than most picture books.) French words are asterisked for translation. The book includes a "Learn more about section with a bibliography. But it is the fanciful art and text that merit 5 stars. A charming picture book biography of the famous housewife who introduced America to the joys of French cooking. The colorful, childlike paintings, with many tiny spot drawings, are arranged all over the page in what appears to be a very busy format but is really laid out a lot like a typical comic book, so readers who are familiar with "top to bottom, left to right" of American comics will have no trouble following the text of Julia's whole life from childhood to death. Some of the illustrations are handily separated by cooking utensils or are even numbered. I especially liked the pages that have a banner with flags across the bottom, showing what country the action takes place in, as Julia and her husband traveled around the world throughout their married life. There is a lot of humor in both the pictures and the text, as the author details pranks that Julia liked to play, or talks about her big feet, or that her mother only cooked three things, one of which was Welsh Rabbit. "What the heck is Welsh Rabbit?" asks a panel in the book (and then explains). There are recipes given and explained, and many French phrases used, and translated. Includes bibliography, DVDs and websites for more info on Julia Child.
What do You think about Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life Of Julia Child (2012)?
written in a flowery cartoon style - you can almost hear her sing-song accent!
—toda9008
Great Illustrations and interesting to read.
—jade
