Bilingual Fairy Tales in French and English: A Story Collection from Charles Perrault and James Planché Paperback – August 19, 2022

I am now 2 years deep in the journey of learning French myself and teaching it at my homeschool co-op. I've found on-the-go kindle reads to be a great fit for improving my language skills, and choosing scrolling stories and guides over social media. I decided to snag these fairy tales in French and English because I felt it would be a good choice for my co-op lessons. The children already know many of the tales in this text as the selection is a nice mix of common and unique stories. We have read them through the lens of other cultures prior, as well, which will make this next material less obscure. It was a perfect choice, as I imagine their innate knowledge of the stories will make digesting it in french that much simpler. I went through the book to ensure it's what I was looking for before planning lessons around it, and as a moderate speaker/reader, I highly suggest this to even novice students hoping to sharpen their French reading skills. The way the stories are organized makes retention and practical application possible, even for young audiences! I also found the audio files for the kindle version to be SO useful in a group and personal setting. This takes reading comprehension a bit further and enhances speaking/listening capacity without the repetitive annoyance one can find in an online language class. If you got the kindle version, again, MAKE SURE TO GET THOSE DOWNLOADS. They are available right at the front of the book, and especially if you're learning for application, is it the way to go.Books like these are really what learning a new language should be like. Fun, relatable, familiar, applicable, versatile. Looking forward to sharing these stories with my students!

Very nice layout and flow, helps to see both languages and help to remember vocabulary.

This book offers tales atypical yet interesting to learn. I expected typical tales, but glad to find otherwise. I found the alternating languages format in brief paragrahs made learning quicker, and content which adults can enjoy.

I've taken Spanish throughout middle, high school and college. I've always wanted to become familiar with another language. I liked the Spanish fairy tales book so much, I got the French one. So awesome to play the audio of the stories and read along so i can better understand how words are pronounced and sound put together in a sentence. Loved that they are different fairy tales from the Spanish book.

I am studying French through Duolingo; it’s a wonderful vehicle to quickly learn vocabulary and simple phrases. This book “Bilingual Fairy Tales” is a wonderful, PERFECT way to improve and augment the lessons of Duolingo. The stories are well chosen and the fact that the passages are translated into English is extremely helpful and ensures one is accurate in verb tenses.

Stories were very disturbing and are not written for children, they leave no gory detail out.

This was a great book and I'm glad I got it. The introduction was a beautiful way to start off and I agree with it. The artwork is very engaging for children especially and it's a great way to learn french since my family and I have just started wanting to learn recently. The audio was a great bonus because I can play it for my children while preparing a meal which helps.I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn French and anyone who enjoys family time with great stories.

My daughter and I have enjoyed this book. It tells well known fairy tales with the first paragraph in French followed by the translation in English. This pattern continues throughout the stories. Each fairy tale is in its original form though, so understand the endings are not the Disney versions.