That it is about counting rhymes to be dug over, as those that uses Achill, the hero of the book opposite (of Cath. Pineur - Ed. Pastel - on 2004) to help him to choose, or of formulettes for "Plouffer", that they croon in the play area to indicate the one who will press himself against it, the one who will be the cat, or the one who will have to leave game, we all have the one in mind at least of these small refrains. “Am stram gramme …” Ed. Pastel - 2004) pour l’aider à choisir…, ou de formulettes pour “plouffer”, que l’on chantonne dans la cour de récréation pour désigner celui qui s’y collera, celui qui sera le chat, ou celui qui devra quitter le jeu, nous avons tous en tête l’un au moins de ces petits refrains. “Am… stram… gram… ”

Remember: one of the players says the counting rhyme, by detaching every syllable well, while touching about the finger, in turn, other children, to the point of indicating the last. (Read continuation …) (Lire la suite…)

First having published Tales in the fifties under title to the combed born child, this second collection of texts of Béatrix Beck was reissued in 2007 by The school of Leisures (collection nine) under this new title: The frog of inkwell.

Béatrix Beck is however known more to have accepted Price Goncourt in 1952 with the novel Léon Morin, priest.

In the Frog of inkwell, they find seventeen marvellous and humorous tales, tinted with poem, in which Béatrix Beck gives word to objects or to animals, without forgetting the sorceresses, the good fairy, the princesses, the troll, doctor of the animals, and even the Santa! (Read continuation …)