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‘Les Enquêtes d’Enola Holmes – Tome 1 – La Double disparition’

Les Enquêtes d'Enola Holmes - Tome 1 - La Double disparition le toboggan

In French, from 10yo.

This is the first book of the collection ‘Enola Holmes mysteries’ by Nancy Springer which inspired the Netflix movie series. Sherlock Holmes is a world famous detective but not many people about his sister Enola. Her skills match her brother’s. In this book, she tries to find her mother who has mysteriously disappeared but her older brothers are set to turn her into a lady. She is fearless and resourceful and escapes the boarding school to go to solve a murder in the capital.

Find out how Enola solves the double disappearance with Les enquetes d’Enola Holmes – la double disparition.

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‘Le loup qui croyait en ses reves’

le loup qui croyait en ses reves le toboggan

In French, from 4yo.

Wolf has many dreams. He would love to meet Santa, become a musician… One morning the tooth fairy leaves him a potato. Despite his friends finding it hilarious, the wolf is happy with the potato and plants it to see what happens. As you already guessed it is magical. A plant grows all the way up to the sky. Wolf climbs up and finds all the sweets and cakes he loves in the clouds.

Explore another funny adventure with Wolf in Le loup qui croyait en ses reves.

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‘T’choupi dans sa maison’

T'choupi dans sa maison le toboggan

In French, from 3yo.

T’choupi is sad, he cannot find his lovey ‘doudou’. He looked under his bed, on the couch, in the kitchen, the laundry and even in his mother’s home office. With his mother’s help, they retrace their steps and search each room again.

This is book with two voices. The parent reads the text and the child can read the words presented with pictograms. Each book comes with a visual dictionary and a search find activity to reinforce the learning of the new vocabulary. The children are actively engaged with the reading through the pictograms and promotes early literacy as well as the development and acquisition of the language.

Learn about the house with T’choupi dans sa maison.

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‘Le manchot qui en avait marre d’etre pris pour un pingouin’

Le manchot qui en avait marre d'etre pris pour un pingouin le toboggan

In French, from 4yo.

A ‘manchot’ (penguin from the Southern Hemisphere) has had enough that everyone confuses him with a ‘pingouin’ (penguin from the Northern Hemisphere). They are so different! How come no-one can see it! ‘Manchots’ can swim better and the ‘Pingouins’ can fly. ‘Manchot’ decides to give an interview to explain why he is so upset. The article in the newspaper is successful and encourages other animals to speak out, like the dromedary who is confused with the camel, the sea lion with the seal, the jaguar with the cheetah and so on. ‘Manchot’ is invited to a TV show in New York to speak about his trouble and he is happy to settle the score on his identity. However, when he is in the show, he receives an unwelcome surprise?

Learn how it turns out for ‘Le manchot qui en avait marre d’etre pris pour un pingouin‘.

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‘Le loup qui n’aimait pas lire’

Le loup qui n'aimait pas lire le toboggan

In French, from 4yo.

Wolf loves books. He does like reading them, he loves eating them. His friends try to convince to read at least one. Books are great adventures. Wolf agrees to try and read one but he quickly fall asleep and starts dreaming. His dreams will take him from tales to tales, such Alice in Wonderland, the jungle book, Peter Pan and many more.

This is another hilarious adventure by our favourite Wolf, to recognise all the tales he ‘falls’ into go to https://letoboggan.com.au/product/le-loup-qui-naimait-pas-lire/

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‘Les insectes’

les insectes le toboggan

In French, from 10mo.

This is gorgeous little book about insects. Let your child guess who is hiding behind the felt shapes. This is book is a sensory experience. Little readers can touch and recognise the felt shapes, say what their colours is and learn about insects surrounding us.

For your copy go to https://letoboggan.com.au/product/les-insectes-mes-petits-coucous/

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‘Mila et Noé à Paris’

Mila et Noé à Paris

In French, from 6yo.

Great way to learn how to read French and explore Paris with this comic book. Mila and Noe are two friends who are on a mission. They are going on a treasure hunt around Paris. They will have to solve clues, catch the subway and visit famous landmarks such as the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, the Natural History Museum and many more places.

The book ends with questions to test children’s understanding of the story.

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‘Andin se fait un nouveau copain’

Andin se fait un nouveau copain le toboggan

In French, from 2yo.

Andin is a happy young llama and loves his flock until one day a new llama with a magnificent fleece arrives. This is a cute story about friendship and jealousy.

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‘Les petits monstres: embrouilles et dragons’

les petits monstres

In French, from 6yo.

Today, the young vampire and her ghost friend have to present at school and they have no idea for their presentation. They are thinking of skipping schools when they find a strange object in the forest. They decide to convince their school friends that this is a dragon egg. However, their lie becomes the source of huge misunderstandings that they need to fix. How can they do it without revealing their secret?

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‘Un peu perdu’

un peu perdu

In French, from 1yo.

Little owl is asleep with mommy owl in their nest. All of sudden he falls off the nest and is lost. A squirrel who saw the sad little owl is going to help him find his mom. She is big, much bigger than little owl. The squirrel knows who it is and brings him to the bear. Little owl says “this is not my mom, my mom has pointy ears”, then the squirrel takes him to the rabbit, so on.. This is a sweet and funny story filled with beautiful illustrations.