La Maison qui s'envole
by Claude Roy is a a second hand book I bought days ago. It's a quick reading, but what a wonderful and enchanting children's book it is! I really enjoyed reading it!
Did you know that there are two kind of houses? The first ones are happy, light is always there, and there are a lot of laughs, a lot of smiles; their lightness is the one of a happy house and so they can fly! The second ones are their opposite: they are so heavy, so suffering that they couldn't never leave, also with their own imagination, the place where they exist, because their torment too excessive.
This one is the house where these four children are spending their summer-time: Hermine, Jules, Eric and Jacques are their names. Called Les Glycines the four children just called it: La Maison".
The house is the ones of their grand-mother and grand-father; during all July the children spends their vacation with them. The house is excited, exactly like them!
Just, pretty quickly, after the first days spent with their relatives, they start a great lack of discipline and education; unfortunately the parents couldn't still "rescue" their children; these children want to see the objects of the house and so they start to open everything, ruining everything so that the objects of the house begin a revolution; they want to be treated with respect: what is, now, this story of being considered a nothing! They work all the day for their owners and then they see these destruction. There is a revolution and ops the children....Fly away!
While they are flying living other adventures, the house is always more strained. It is missing that adorable destructive children. Where are laughters, smiles, happy moments without them? And so the house will also fly away for searching for them!
Happy end, this one is a beautiful reading for children and... adults.
Anna Maria Polidori
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