The Child and the River Bosco Henri
The Child and the River Bosco Henri A new translation of an evocative, Huckleberry Finn-esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that…
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The Child and the River Bosco Henri
A new translation of an evocative, Huckleberry Finn-esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that ensue when he disobeys his family's wishes.The Child and the River tells a simple but haunting tale. Prohibition turns into temptation: Pascalet dreams of nothing so much as heading down to the river, and one day, with his parents away, he does. Pascalet, a boy growing up on a farm in the south of France, is permitted by his parents to play wherever he likes--only never by the river.
Hiding in the underbrush, Pascalet observes that the group includes a boy his Wandering along the bank, intoxicated with newfound freedom, he falls asleep in a rowboat and wakes to find himself caught in rapids and run aground on an island where a band of Gypsies has pitched camp together with their trained bear.