Le Colibrì
by Elisa Shua Dusapin & Hélène Becquelin published by La Joie de Lire is a poetic children's book speaking the most to teen agers. I start to tell you to implement the reading with the possibility via QR-CODE to access at a song that it is plenty of lightness and that, I simply adore by Christophe Sturzenegger.
The story of Célestin starts with a shell, last memory of the place and house where he lived in. The family in fact decides to move on: new flat, new existence, without his big brother... Célestin finds soon a friend in Charlotte "But everybody call my Lotte" starting a dialogue that it is synonime of growth for both of them more or less contemporaries. One day, the brother of Célestin donates him a colibrì, in state of hibernation: it's a special, special bird that one. The smallest and quickest one of the world, his food is the nectar found in flowers: he is a frail and at the same time strong and suggestive creature. They discuss of the colibrì, and that one becomes the main topic of these two teen-agers. One day Lotte confesses him that maybe will go away, in New Zealand where there is also her mother. To Célestin this news is terrible because understands that to him Lotte is precious. The Colibrì one day will fly away, symbol of rebirth, while Célestin will confess to Lotte: "Je coupe moitié de la distance entre toi et moi, Jusqu'à l'infini...Y a l'infini entre nous deux."
Absolutely touching.
Highly recommended.
Anna Maria Polidori
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