With her latest book, 101 good reasons to be happy being a girlBéatrice Masini (journalist and writer) succeeds in making boys jealous. Just the thing to reassure all the ladies!
It’s not the new feminist pamphlet, but it’s close… In any case, girls will be able to boast of having their own bedside book. In the style of Prévert’sInventaire , with humor and tenderness, Béatrice Masini (who already won us over with 101bonnes raisons de se réjouir d’être un enfant and 101 bonnes raisons de se réjouir de lire) presents us with the joys of being a girl. Whether you have “a certain tendency to fall in love (reason 34)” or a “certain tendency to take this way of falling in love very seriously (35)”, whether you’re “sentimental (39)” or “demanding (40)”, whether you can “during sleepovers make pacts with your blood – without spilling too much, if possible (55)”, whether you decide “one day to be a fairy (63)”, and “the next day a witch (64)”, the truth is : you “can be anyone you want to be (100)”.What’s more, we’ll live longer than the boys (101). And we’ll have plenty of other reasons to rejoice…
Illustrated by Guillaume Long (winner of the 2003 Töpffer Prize for his book Les Sardines sont cuites), each good reason is in itself a lively, funny little story. With teasing drawings pointing out feminine foibles or highlighting girls’ fantasies and imaginations, this acid-pink book is sure to get moms hooked, too.
Attention all those who are nostalgic for their childhood!
101 raisons de se réjouir d’être une fille, la Joie de Lire, Geneva, April 2011.
by Odile Woesland
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français (French)
