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A new year approaches for pitifully inept student Ducoboo, dunce
extraordinaire and notorious troublemaker. A whole year of enduring
Mr Latouche's punishments, of sharing the dunce cap with Skelly,
the biology class skeleton, and of course of waging merciless war
on his deskmate, top student Leonie, who refuses to let him copy
her answers. But behind the dim-witted clown's facade, could
Ducoboo be hiding a loyal heart?
It's not by counting the flies on the ceiling that one becomes a
star in math... And one must be really resourceful to avoid the
beckoning finger of the teacher and the humiliation of the dunce
cap! And Leonie, who still detests copiers... So, Ducoboo invents
the answers that he can't steal from his neighbour. He has cause to
regret doing so because, although very fertile, his imagination
plays tricks on him and he often ends up 'In the Corner'! The
Series champions valuse such as friendship and the right to be
different, and tackles subjects such as boy-girl and parent-child
relationships.
Ducoboo's life isn't easy. Being the king of dunces - while still
managing to avoid wearing the crown too often - takes work,
dedication, and an awful lot of imagination. It also takes a proper
target: Leonie, the gifted girl who doesn't like to share her
answers with His Majesty. It's a constant war of wits between these
two, under the disbelieving eye of the long-suffering teacher,
fought with wigs, cameras and magical pencil-sharpeners. And when
school's over, the beach is the new battlefield!
What would a class be without a dunce? A bit like a curry without
spice. And Ducoboo sure spices up his fellow pupils' days. Not one
lesson goes by without flavour - with him, school is an endless
string of break-times. Of course, there's always Leonie, the
terribly gifted girl who doesn't put up with Ducoboo's messing and
doesn't believe in sharing knowledge. Of course, there's also the
teacher, whose index finger turns out to be more threatening than
ever...No, school life isn't one long, smooth ride: for some, the
school year is perhaps the most dangerous time of all!
This is a hugely humorous series. The adventures of the most
adorable, brilliant, and universally appreciated dunce that the
graphic novel world has invented are now available in English! The
pupil Ducoboo is nice and a joker, but also a notorious dunce - a
"quality" that is no bed of roses...One must be awfully resourceful
to avoid the humiliating dunce's cap! But Ducoboo is brimming with
imagination...Through gags, some stranger than others, this series
champions values such as friendship and the right to be different,
and tackles subjects such as boy-girl and parent-child
relationships.
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Emma G. Wildford (Hardcover)
Zidrou; Illustrated by Edith
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Journey back in time to the roaring twenties, and across England
and Lapland, to experience the charming and thrilling adventure of
Emma G. Wildford, a tale that mixes mystery, grand adventure, and
love. It's been fourteen months since Emma G. Wildford's fiance,
Roald Hodges, a member of the National Geographic Society board the
good ship Kinship and set sail for Norway... and she has had no
news of him since. Every day, she questions the other members of
the Society about his whereabouts, and his current situation,
whether good or ill, but to no avail. Before he left, Roald gave
Emma a mysterious envelope to open, but only in case something
happened to him. Rejecting the very thought of Roald's death, Emma
decides to leave behind everything - her life, her comfort, her
England, to go to Lapland in pursuit. Along the way, Emma's
certainties and beliefs will be challenged in every way, changing
this quest for her fiance into a quest for her true, essential
self. Beautifully illustrated and rivetingly written, Emma G.
Wildford is a character that will imprint herself on your mind and
memory forever!
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