ARE YOU MY MUMMY? ES-TU MON PAPA?

ES-TU MON PAPA? / ARE YOU MY MUMMY?

written by and illustrated by Sophie Paine 

My friends all have a French father… I have an English Daddy who always speaks differently.’ (Mes copains ont tous un papa… Moi, j’ai un Daddy qui parle toujours diff?remment.)

‘Mes amis ont tous une “mummy” anglaise… moi, j’ai une Maman qui n’arr?te pas de dire des mots diff?rents.’(My friends all have a mummy… I have a Maman who keeps talking with different words.)

This little boy doesn’t have a French Papa like all his school friends… but a Daddy. He is a bit the same but different however. The little boy wants to be like all his friends; he wants things to have one name in one language, he wants to be called a ‘petit coeur’ and not a sweetie pie. But… do all his friends have a ‘papa’?

Es-tu mon Papa? has a twin story; Are you my Mummy? who reads stories with funny dots on the “e” and turns eggs into omelettes, but in the end, aren’t bread and jam better than kedgeree?

About the author

Sophie PAINE has moved from her native France to sunny Italy, monsoons of Hong Kong and the snowy Minnesota, and married an Englishman. On her way,

Sophie left behind accounting and financial reports, taught English to Somali refugees and picked up paintbrushes and crayons. She enjoys learning languages,

educating people around the world about finance, and playing with her two bilingual boys.

For families with children aged 4 – 7 who are raised in a bilingual family.

56 pages. Full-color. Hardcover.

H212mm x W285mm

Bilingual (English & French)

ISBN 978-988-98653-4-4