In terms of history, I can say she is friendly and has much charm as the stories may have on children in rural France of late nineteenth century ... The dialogues between countrymen kids about 10 to 12 years are raw and just delicious, good patois country, a land of green accent mixed with verve kids, it was quite refreshing.
ThisJMadden between neighboring villages is funny and pathetic at the same time when we know that not much later, the adults would have to undergo a major devastating war. Yet the principle is cute: the "clans" kids of two rival villages compete to blow stick and launch stones and harvest the "tribe" that makes them winners: buttons, elastic laces and other , leaving the defeated leave home totally disheveled and ashamed, then take a nice rouste by his parents, the money is not flowing freely at the time, he was asked the children to take good care of their business ...
In terms of this edition of 7 September 2011, I must say that I enjoyed the soft cover and illustration, even though I've never had in the hands of other editions.
Despite this rather positive opinion, I confess I have difficulty understanding what made this book so popular, turning it into so great "classic". But it is true that I have no crazy love for the old literature, or the old black and white movies. It is possible that I am not a good judge in the matter.
