Nicholas on Vacation

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The third volume of stories about the cheeky French schoolboy.

Text by René Goscinny, with illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempé

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Price: USD$19.95

200 points

Specifications

Hardback
English (US Edition)
214 x 145 mm, 8 3/8 x 5 3/4 in
132 pp
120 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13: 9780714846781
ISBN-10: 0714846783

Overview

Third book in the classic series recounting the exploits of the cheeky French schoolboy, Nicholas
The stories in this volume take place by the sea, during the summer holidays. There are fishing trips, complicated games of miniature golf and a whole new gang of friends with whom Nicholas can get into trouble
René Goscinny’s stories, as in previous volumes, are witty and engaging, expertly translated by Anthea Bell, and have been brought to life through the endearing and perfectly judged illustrations of Jean-Jacques Sempé

In The Press

'Nicholas has an engagingly positive outlook on life, loves school despite his academic failings, and has refined the art of driving his parents up the wall, while remaining blissfully unaware of how infuriating they find him.' (Guardian)

About the author(s)

René Goscinny (1926–77), born in Paris, lived most of his early years in Buenos Aires and New York. He returned to France in the 1950s where he met Jean-Jacques Sempé and together they created the character for Nicholas, the famous schoolboy. He later worked with Alberto Uderzo, on making the adventures of Asterix the Gaul. A prolific and internationally successful children´s author, he is also the creater of Lucky Luke and Dingodossiers, among others. He also received Césars for his numerous animated cartoons

Jean-Jacques Sempé (b.1932) is one of the world’s most successful illustrators and cartoonists. He is the illustrator of the classic children’s-book character, Nicholas, and author of a collection of some thirty albums of his cartoons and graphic novels, all published or to be published by Phaidon. His world-renowned illustrations and cartoons are featured on the cover of the New Yorker and in Paris Match.

Anthea Bell was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize (USA) in 2002 for her translation of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. Her many works of translation from French and German (for which she has received several other awards) include the Nicholas books and, with Derek Hockridge, the entire Asterix the Gaul saga by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.