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 weekendLa 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.
New York Public Library : http://www.nypl.org
Brooklyn Public Library : http://www.bklynlibrary.org
Carroll Gardens public library
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.