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Title: French for Cats: All the French Your Cat Will Ever Need by Henri De LA Barbe, John Boswell, Gary Zamchick, Henry Beard ISBN: 0-679-40676-X Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nothing lost in translation...
Comment: In this delightful little book, wonderfully and perceptively illustrated with humourous line-art drawings, you will, as the title suggests, find 'All the French Your Cat will Ever Need'. For those of you who follow my writing, you may find this review to be shorter than average. There is a good reason for this -- the book is shorter than average; about 80 pages or so, and on average fewer than 20 words per page.
In this volume, you will learn what a French cat (le chat) does...
Je miaule, Je ronronne, Je dors
(I meow, I purr, I sleep)
Je cours rapidement d'une piece a l'autre sans aucune raison apparente
(I run rapidly from room to room for no apparent reason)
Je reste assis et je regarde fixement dans le vide pendant des heures
(I sit and stare at nothing for hours on end)
...and does not do...
Je ne cours pas apres les voitures
(I do not chase cars)
Je n'attrape pas les Frisbees dans ma bouche
(I do not catch Frisbees in my mouth)
Of course, the French cat will need appropriate food (gourmet, no less)...
L'Oiseau, La Souris, Le Poisson, Le Vilaine Grosse Bestiole
(the bird, the mouse, the fish, the big ugly bug)
...served in an elegant manner...
Le Bol pour Manger
(the Food Bowl)
...served at the appropriate time.
Je veux qu'on remplisse mon bol
(I want food in my bowl)
Je veux qu'on remplisse mon bol immediatement
(I want food in my bowl now)
...
J'attends qu'on me serve...
(I'm waiting...)
Of course, a responsible cat person will need to subject le chat to the occasion unpleasant experience...
Surtout je n'aime pas aller chez le veterinaire
(I really do not like to go to the vet)
Je ne veux pas qu'on me pique avec une aiguille enorme
(I do not want to be studck with a huge needle)
Je ne veux pas etre chatre
(I do not want to be neutered)
So, if you ever wondered what it would be like for your cat to produce a fur-ball in French (voila!) or the craftiness of French cat-thinking (how to get the enemy lawn mower to attack the bad neighbour child), this book is definitely for you.
Beware, however, even though this is 'All the French Your Cat Will Ever Need', there is a second helping, 'Advanced French for Exceptional Cats', to be found in a second volume exclusively for 'sophisticated cats as smart as yours'.
To be sure to understand le chat with savoir-faire, both volumes are an absolute necessity. Written by Henri de la Barbe (Henry Beard) (also know for scholarly necessities 'Latin for All Occasions' and 'Miss Piggy's Guide to Life'), and illustrated with wit and charm by Gary Zamchick, these books make delightful fun reading for an hour, and perfect gifts for cat lovers and francophiles alike.
Rating: 5
Summary: Funny and Useful, Too!
Comment: Aside from being a very funny compendium of cat thought and behavior, this book helped me learn French by inspiring me to remember and use phrases such as "I think I am going to cough up a hairball" (useful in bad French restaurants) and "I prefer to bathe myself." The sentences may be cute and silly, but they are in proper French, with proper sentence structure, and simple enough to provide useful grammatical tools and vocabulary. The pictures are cute, too.
If nothing else, it will amuse your friends who love cats (and even those who don't).
Rating: 4
Summary: French for Cats! Have the Most Sophisticated Kitty in Town.
Comment: What a witty little picture book. After you read it, you'll surely think your kitty is the most sophisticated cat on the block. Or at least her or his owner is. We can't say for sure whether the man who wrote this understands the French and all their foibles, but he certainly understands kitty thought. Oo-la-la! Tons of salmon and a featherbed stuffed with catnip for the author's cat -- and, I'm sure he has one.
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Title: Advanced French for Exceptional Cats by Henri De LA Barbe, Gary Zamchick ISBN: 0679417648 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse by Henry Beard, Gary Zamchick ISBN: 0679435824 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Zen for Cats by Henry Beard, Ron Barrett ISBN: 0375500340 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Who Moved My Soap? : The CEO's Guide to Surviving in Prison by Andy Borowitz ISBN: 0743251423 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Rationalizations to Live By by Henry Beard, Andy Borowitz, John Boswell, Roz Chast ISBN: 0761116362 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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