Madame Eiffel: The Love Story of the Eiffel Tower - Hardcover

9783899557558: Madame Eiffel: The Love Story of the Eiffel Tower
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Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, yet no one knows the love story that led to its construction. Author Alice Brière-Haquet and illustrator Csil have pooled their creative talents to tell this touching story about overcoming hardship with clever invention fueled by love. Mr. and Mrs. Eiffel are a happy couple enjoying living in the most romantic city in the world, Paris. Until one day, Mrs. Eiffel begins to feel desperately unwell. The experts are unanimous: the only thing that can save her is fresh air. Her husband, a bright engineer, decides he will take matters into his own hands and build a tower that will reach the clouds in an attempt to restore her health.

Csil’s poetically minimal illustrations in black, white, and pink are incredibly evocative, and Alice Brière-Haquet’s words are a delight to read aloud.

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K-Gr 2—In this fairy tale about the Eiffel Tower, Eiffel is a "happy engineer: young, successful, and in love." His wife Cathy is the "prettiest girl in Paris" with a penchant for traveling. They go on adventures until Cathy gets depressed and doesn't want to get out of bed. Eiffel builds her a tower, a "railway that takes us up to the clouds in a blink" to get her some fresh air, which instantly cures her. As a comment on clinical depression or gender dynamics, the book falls flat, and the awkward and stilted rhymes, translated from French, definitely don't help. The illustrations, however, are engaging and clever. The spidery black lines and triangular grids echo the lines of the Eiffel Tower, and the bobble-headed characters are sweet and freckly, all with rosy pink highlights. There is no back matter about the real Eiffel Tower, and the true story of Eiffel's reasons for building the tower have nothing to do with his wife. VERDICT A charmingly illustrated but additional purchase for picture book collections.—Lisa Nowlain, Darien Library, CT
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New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2015.

"The artwork and text combine to create a delightful fairy tale . . . Pure joie de vivre.”

Kirkus

"Csil’s intricate, spidery drawings are the work’s great charm . . . [E]ach spread has its own complex eccentricity.”

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  • PublisherLittle Gestalten
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 3899557557
  • ISBN 13 9783899557558
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages32
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