L’étonnante histoire de l’homme le plus lent du monde, by Arthur Dreyfus and Sim Mau

Here is a slow guy, incredibly slow…especially when it comes to saying ‘I love you’!

This child’s father is extremely slow. Not easy for him! This man carefully eats his couscous one grain at a time, for example. When he’s sad, his tears don’t flow for several hours… Even at a young age, at school, he only wrote half a number each day! He takes an age pampering his pet, a slug, and his sentences begin with endless ‘I, I, I . . .’ but remain unfinished because he’s so slow. It is only when he sets off for a trip around the world (!!!) that he finally manages to say, for the first time in his life, a moving ‘I . . . love you!’ to his son!

Hardcover picture book, 48 pages, 19 x 24 cm