Mataf and the wolves/Mataf et les loups: Tales in English and French

By Jasmin Heymelaux and Morgane Siméon

Age: from 8 years old Reading Level: from 3rd Grade

Thanks to these short bilingual stories, children will learn to master both French and English.

Mataf the house cat is going to live through a crazy experience to rescue Myrte, a baby within an inch of starving…
What can he do, being so little, all alone in the pitch-dark night, under the snow, when he is terrified of everything ?
What if, in this Christmas eve, there was a genie, even a third-class one, rising from an old oil-lamp to help him brave the wolves prowling about in the deep forest ?

About the series: children growing in a bilingual environment will love the short and educational stories published by the Éditions Ipagine. Richly illustrated, these tales will help them understand the similarities and the differences between French and English.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Ipagine
• Release date: Apr 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9782511036532

Book preview

Bonjour les filles,

bonjour les garçons !

Hello girls,

hello boys !

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Je suis Charlotte la loutre.

I am Charlotte the otter.

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Cette nuit, confortablement

installée dans ma tanière,

entre les racines des grands

arbres centenaires qui bordent

le cours d’eau, j’ai été réveillée

par le hurlement d’un loup…

Last night, comfortably

settled in my den,

between the roots of the big

hundred-year-old trees along

the river, I was awakened

by the howling of a wolf…

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En fait, je crois

que je rêvais à l’histoire

que m’avait racontée

ma bonne amie la chèvre.

Actually, I think

I was dreaming of the story

I had been told

by my good friend the goat.

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Sa cousine, Noémie, vivait

en Savoie avec Mataf le chat

et, la veille de Noel,

alors qu’elle était très malade…

Her cousin, Noemie, was living

in Savoie with Mataf the cat,

and, on Christmas eve,