Les Livres en Français!

I've long had the plan to introduce the Goon to French at an early age, so I ordered a few children's books en français, two of which arrived in our mailbox this afternoon: On Ne Peut Pas!, by Jeanne Ashbé and La Nuit, by Stéphanie Ledu. They're both nice little books, the first telling a story about a little bébé being told not to do all sorts of things like fooling with his papa's eyeglasses and unrolling toilet paper, and the second talking about what happens at night and the science of the earth's passage around the sun. This one is also good for helping me remember a lot more of the language, as the vocabulary is a little more advanced. This summer Zoe will be spending a week at Language Camp learning French (she has the choice of that, German, or Spanish), and she's already learned numbers 1-10, how to greet and say her name, her age, and how to say she only knows a little French. Pretty cool. Her interest, she told me, stems from her desire to one day visit French-speaking countries such as England and Italy, having not considered France as a nation where French was certain to be employed. I had to explain to her that, while some folks do speak French in those countries, English and Italian are much more commonly spoken - a revelation! She seems a little concerned that by teaching Olive while she's also learning English she'll get the two tongues confused, but we reassured her that there was little danger of this happening.