The SUNDAY EVENING POST is a day late! We had another winter storm yesterday and our internet connection was down. Technology is great, but when it doesn't work our modern lives tend to come to a stand still. Books will always work, no WiFi required!

This week's post is a little different than previous weeks. I work at a French school and as part of La Semaine de Promotoin de l'Éducation en Français, we had a Book-Nic or Pique-Nique aux Livres. So, I decided to post all the books that were read during our Book-Nic (they are all in French).

Each teacher choose 2 or 3 books to read and all the children in the school were in the gym for the activity. Each teacher had a pic-nic blanket and a group of children from various grades. We read our book to the children and then they moved to the next teacher to enjoy another story. The children liked hearing stories from teachers other than their own and some books required active participation, allowing the children to burn off some energy. The groups may not have heard the same book from each teacher or even visited all eight teachers. This fostered impromptu literature discussions among the children after the event. On their own the students shared which stories they had heard, what they had learned from a story or what they liked best about the Book-Nic.

I am shown here reading Coincé by Oliver Jeffers, who is quickly becoming a favourite author.

The following is a complete list of books read by the teachers at my school. If you have a Pique-nique aux livers I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Pat le chat - j'adoremes souliers blancs by Eric Litwin

Pat le chat - j'adore aller à l'école by Eric Litwin

L'arbre bric-à-brac by Nick Bland and Stephen Michael King

Bande de canailles by Karen Beaumont and David Catrow

Un petit lapin brun by Marion Dane Bauer

Sortez de mon livre by Nick Bland

Mmm...des biscuits! by Robert Munch

Petit éléphant est malin by Jullian Harke

A l'extrême by Ian Rohr (French translation by Suzanne Marcotte)

Le language des animaux by Lisa Thompson (French translation by Suzanne Marcotte)

Je suis Louna est je suis un artiste by Bertrand Gauthier

Coincé by Oliver Jeffers