At-home activities

  • L’école des loisirs have a set of activities renewed every day, called “L’école des loisirs à la maison”.

  • If you have a subscription with them, L’école des loisirs’s subscription service, L’école des Max offers activities based on their books. L’école des Max also has audiobook versions of all their books, available as a SoundCloud playlist on their homepage.

Books and magazines subscriptions

  • L’école des loisirs: Subscribe to receive 8 fiction books a year (from November to June), at Smith Street Maternelle or at home. Prices are around $65 for 8 high quality books.
      

    • You can listen to readings online at https://www.ecoledesmax.com/en-version.php

    • Contact for USA and Canada: Marie Barguirdjian mariemax.edl@gmail.com www.ecoledesmax.com

  • Bayard Milan : magazine subscription  - Toupie, Pomme d’Api, Astrapi, J’aime lire, Histoires pour les petits… http://monde.bayard-milan.com/usa-east-coast/

    - Contact for the East Coast: Catherine Lamy catherine.lamy@bayard-mag.com 

Bookstores in New York City

  • Albertine – French bookstore 
    972 Fifth Avenue (at 79th Street)
    New York, NY 10075
    www.albertine.com
    French story hour for the kids during the weekend

  • La Librairie des Enfants
    163 East 92nd street (Upper East Side)

 Online Bookstores

  • Amazon Canada

  • FNAC: www.FNAC.fr

  • Chapitre: www.chapitre.com

  •  Indigo: Canadian library – selection of books for French immersion (https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/kids/books/french-immersion/)

 Libraries

A lot of Public Libraries in New York have French books. 

FIAF(French Institute-Alliance Française) http://www.fiaf.org/library/index.shtml

Audiobooks

  • L’école des loisirs is offering audiobook versions of some of their books.

  • Encore une histoire, podcast offering children’s books, each episode is under twenty minutes.

  • Des histoires en musique d’Elodie Fondacci, podcast created by Radio Classique producer Elodie Fondacci, telling stories with a musical background, in under ten minutes.

  • La grande histoire de Pomme d’Api, podcast by children’s magazine Pomme d’Api, where the main story of their monthly issue is offered as an audiobook, under ten minutes.

  • Une histoire et…Oli, bedtime story podcast by French radio channel France Inter, each episode is under fifteen minutes.

  • Les Aventures de Tintin: four Tintin comic books turned into audiobooks by French radio station France Culture, each episode lasts under half an hour.

  • Astérix et la Zizanie, audio dramatization of the fifteenth Astérix et Obélix comic, voiced by actors of the Comédie-Française. Runtime: one hour.

  • Histoires à écouter, audiobook podcast by online publisher Short Edition, each episode is under twenty minutes.

  • Souffleur de rêves, online children’s books provider offering six free audiobooks.

  • Kidstory, podcast offering audiobooks of fairy tales old and new, each one under fifteen minutes.

  • It’s Play Time, providing a fresh take on classics fairy tales and plays, mixing French and English. Each episode is under twenty minutes.

  • Guillemette, ARTE radio’s first original children’s audiobook, created and produced by Julie Bonnie, tells the story of Guillemette, a little girl who meets funny and interesting characters. Each episode is under ten minutes.

  • Les P’tites Histoires, audiobook podcast by online reading platform Taleming, offering two new episodes a week. Each episode is under twenty minutes.

  • Whisperies, iOS and Google Play application offering free audiobooks and visual books. Varying lengths, the longest are under twenty minutes.

  • Audible is offering children’s audiobooks in French for free. Lengths vary widely, from a few minutes to hours.