Hi!
We had a couple Dr. Seuss books in French in the library at Milwaukee Frenc=
h Immersion School. I particularly remember Yertle the Turtle. They really =
didn't work! When so much of the pleasure comes from the rhymes and the inv=
ented vocabulary, there just isn't any way to reproduce the flavor of Dr. S=
euss in another language, French anyway. This was also true of some other A=
merican classics--Good-Night, Moon comes to mind. It was always interesting=
to discover what worked and what didn't and why. For example, since French=
color adjectives come after the noun, "one fish, two fish, red fish, blue =
fish" becomes "un poisson, deux poissons, poisson rouge, poisson bleu". The=
most disappointing experience I had with this phenomenon was with no less =
than Madeleine. It is far superior in English, again because of the rhythm =
of the language. Don't get me wrong--there are many absolutely wonderful bo=
oks for kids published in French with all kinds of delights for the ear and=
the eye. I refer here only to the challenge of translating favorites from =
one language to another.
Bonnie Withers
School Library Media Coordinator
UW-M
School of Information Studies
bwithers@sois.uwm.edu
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