Comme un roman daniel pennac ebook

He describes the scene from the point of view of the orator, the parent who tucks the child in at night to hear the story. A sudden truce after the battle of the day, a reunion lifted out of the ordinary. We savored the brief moment of silence before the storytelling began, then our voice, sounding like itself again, the liturgy of chapters. Yes, reading a story every evening fulfilled the most beautiful, least selfish, and least speculative function of prayer: that of having our sins forgiven. From the two year old to the nine year old, we each anticipate our moment, just the two of us together, with a quiet breath, warm bodies snuggled together, and we forget about the mess in the kitchen, the hole made in the closet door, the argument over piano practice and whose turn it was to sit in the favorite chair.

Instead, we read. We transport ourselves as fellow travelers to deep sea trenches, the green-gabled rooftop on Prince Edward Island, the dark shadows of the Forbidden Forest, and Mr. Some places are less enchanted than others, or may have grown so to our eyes by repeated re-tellings and readings.

The house of the three bears has become all too familiar for me in our little world of narrative. But Pennac shares something profound, too, about those redundant re-readings.

No wonder our toddlers love to pick up their round-eared, sticky board books over and over again. And no wonder reading becomes a language of love. The problem, according to Pennac, is when children begin their first attempts at reading independently. Reading is no longer an intimate act. It quickly becomes something to be assessed, a place-holder on the path to academic success or failure.

As parents we turn reading at home into a chore, or even worse, a punishment. We become pendantic, and the books our children once escaped to for enjoyment turn hard and cold like prisons. Pennac offers many ways we can escape this lethal approach to literature, but what he really endorses is returning our readers to their original love of books.

If we stimulate their desire to learn before making them recite out loud; if we support them in their efforts instead of trying to catch them out; if we give up whole evenings instead of trying to save time; if we make the present come alive without threatening them with the future; if we refuse to turn a pleasure into a chore but nurture it instead. What stood out the most was the idea of giving up whole evenings for reading. The walls in my home are lined with books.

With baskets full of the revolving collection that comes home from the library each week. Some of them never get opened. It is a terrible thing to say, a terrible thing to confess. I need to create that time in my home, with my kids.

More than the brief time afforded by our bedtime reading ritual. Pennac himself acknowledges that days are busy, and that it is easy for reading to get lost as the minutes fly past. Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love. Time when children are still asleep, or back in bed again for naps. We steal it from the places it demands to go so that we can stop and listen, comfort, touch.

So here is my new resolution: I will become a thief of time, and steal it away for my family to read. Time that will be sanctioned and protected; time in which the rights of the reader will be upheld and obeyed. View all 3 comments. So thin and so full of meaning.

I think this should be a must-read for parents, for those who read for pleasure above all. It teaches you how to truly help your children understanding the pleasant side of reading, forgetting the compulsory side that they come to know at school.

Teach children to read for curiosity and passion and not to show only that they can write a perfect comment of a book. Pennac was an inner-city teacher in Paris. He believes that we need to promote reading for pleasure in order to get our young ones to read. He relates many stories from his own time spent growing up and teaching. He believes in the power of the story. He thinks that when children are asked to answer comprehension questions when learning to read, all their love of Reviewed by Marta Morrison for TeensReadToo.

He thinks that when children are asked to answer comprehension questions when learning to read, all their love of reading disappears. I really think he is on to something here. I teach fifth grade and read aloud all the time. I have so many standards to teach and especially in California where they are so high, that reading aloud time has been drastically cut. I loved this book because it validated what I believe. He also wrote ten rights of the reader: 1. The right to read.

I liked this right because even though I am a reader there are times when I don't read because life has gotten to me. I remember a real sparse time after the birth of both of my kids. I didn't crack a book for about nine months. The right to skip. The right not to finish a book.

This hit home with me, too. I always felt guilty when I didn't finish a book for a book club, but I have the right not to finish a book whenever I don't like it. The right to read it again - Harry Potter, here I come! The right to read anything. The right to mistake a book for real life. The right to read anywhere. This applies to me since I have read many times in Disneyland - and I have pictures to prove it. The right to dip in. The right to read out loud. The right to be quiet and not discuss the book with anyone.

Every parent, teacher, librarian, and person who works with kids should read this book. I wish we could get every administrator to read this book and really think about HOW and WHY we want kids to read hint: it is not to prepare them for the end of the year test and discuss how some of our efforts in the past decade have really eliminated the joy of reading and become too prescriptive and sterile.

This book reinforced a lot of what I already believe, but has also given me a lot to think about Every parent, teacher, librarian, and person who works with kids should read this book. This book reinforced a lot of what I already believe, but has also given me a lot to think about in my approach to reading and sharing literature with kids.

Sep 13, Ann rated it really liked it Shelves: language-books , french. There are many books that bemoan the fact that so many children don't like to read, and offer various remedies.

But these approaches so often turn reading into yet another chore Track your reading! Write down why you liked or didn't like the book. This book takes the other way around, and starts with the love of stories that all children have. When do they lose it? How do they lose it? And how can they regain it? This book should be considered as a series of small essays rather than a how-to- There are many books that bemoan the fact that so many children don't like to read, and offer various remedies.

This book should be considered as a series of small essays rather than a how-to-do-it prescription. The author shares his experience of getting French high school students interested in reading. His main trick is to start his class by reading aloud from a book with a catchy beginning, like Le Parfum by Patrick Susskind.

Before the sullen teenagers realize that what this crazy teacher is up to Reading to them like they were toddlers! There are plenty of funny moments in the book. For instance, after his class has read and enjoyed the French translation of The Catcher in the Rye, he astounds them by saying that American teenagers hate the book, simply because it is on their class curriculum.

He makes the remark that perhaps, somewhere in Texas, there is a teen who is lost in the story of Emma Bovary, a book that French teenagers hate because it is on their class curriculum. He also points out that readers who read Harlequin romances of handsome doctors and deserving nurses may end up one day reading Dr.

Zhivago, which is a story of There are also some pithy descriptions of classics, provided by the author's older brother : War and Peace : "A girl is in love with a guy and marries a third guy" The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield : "It's the story of a guy who starts out by drinking a lot of whisky and ends up by drinking a lot of water" I also liked the story of the young man doing his compulsory military service, who volunteers every day for the unpopular chore of cleaning the latrines.

After 15 minutes of cleaning, he locks the door and sits down to spend the rest of the morning reading Gogol, undisturbed and peaceful! Although the book was written in and tends to blame television rather than computers as a competitor for children's time and attention, it is still up to date and relevant.

In short, the author's approach to getting teens to read is simply : make them enjoy it! Find a story that they like, read it to them if necessary, and that may spark the flame.

Don't force-feed the classics to them, but let them find stories, translated from other languages if necessary, that appeal to them. Then stand back and watch as another young mind opens up. Just when I was feeling pretty low about teaching in general, Pennac's book reminded me of the passion I have for helping students become the readers they need to be.

This is told in stories, in short essays, all surrounding the need for authentic, passionate reading. He begins with the sadness a parent feels when he realizes that child who used to love stories, and reading, and books is now struggling to read a required book for a report. The agony parents and child feel is something we can all Just when I was feeling pretty low about teaching in general, Pennac's book reminded me of the passion I have for helping students become the readers they need to be.

The agony parents and child feel is something we can all relate to. His scenes in the classroom are equally vivid. He gets it I've recently assigned my students to write a literacy memoir I'll read several of his essays as examples of writing about reading.

Pennac is the author of the Bill of Rights for REaders: my favorite, The right to not defend your tastes. I love it! I'm an omnivorous reader I'm confused, I must admit, that there's a credit for a translator Pennac's from Canada I'm embarrassed that I don't know. Jan 17, Marina Sofia rated it it was amazing. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts.

Save Not today. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Comme un roman French Edition. Mes livres. Mes commandes. Je me connecte. Top ventes. Parution : Choix format PDF ePub. Guide des formats. Monologue gesticulatoire Daniel Pennac "Quand je pense! Le dictateur et le hamac Daniel Pennac Ce serait l'histoire d'un dictateur agoraphobe qui se ferait remplacer par un sosie.