NP: Le Clezio. From "French Blog"..

[Mark Kohut]

says French is easy to learn from his children's books.

Voyage au pays des arbres is about a young boy who, bored, decides to take off to the ‘country of trees’.  He feels that trees are not all alike, can talk, think, listen and have personalities and so decides to become friends with all of them.  Balaabilou is about an African fisherman who tells children about Balaabilou who saved a beautiful princess named Leila from a horrible death and her entire kingdom from drought.  La grande vie peuple du ciel is about the power of the imagination and the frailty of dreams.

Le Clezio’s style is very Roald Dahl-like.