Petit Singe cherche son refuge/Little Monkey's One Safe Place
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When Little Monkey is frightened by the storm he runs to his mother's side. "Don't worry," she says. "There is always one safe place." But Little Monkey doesn't know where to find his one safe place. He searches all through the jungle - in a nest, on an island, in a cave - but none of the places are his one safe place. Tired and sad, Little Monkey goes to find his mother only to realise that his one safe place is much closer to home than he expected. Now available in this easy-to-read dual language French/English edition, this book is perfect for learning either French or English as a foreign language.
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Picked this up from my local library as it was bilingual French and English. However, I was a bit disappointed by the English translation as I noticed that it did not match the French entirely. For example the scene with the crocodile:
French:
‘mais un crocodile géant sort de l'eau en faisant claquer son énorme bouche, et chasse Petit Singe qui se réfugie tres vite sur le bord de la rivière.'
English:
‘But a big green crocodile came snapping and chased him back to the bank.'
The English translation leaves out the big mouth; in French it doesn't say he's green.
So it doesn't feel like a true translation and doesn't fully help with my main goal of improving my French if I have to correct or add to the translation.
