Figure 1.--This French text book for beginning readers was published in 1969. The illustrator was Marcel Marlier.
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Figure 1.--This French text book for beginning readers was published in 1969. The illustrator was Marcel Marlier. |
We have only limited information on French textbooks at this time. Textbooks often have a great deal of interesting information about a country, including information on contemporaty clothing styles. We do note many primary reading text books illustrated by Marcel Marlier. There were titles like Mary and Her Family and Mary’s Holidays. These look rather like the American Dick and Jane readers. The illustrations were so appealing that the French readers were translated into English and used in Englsh and British Empire countries. Mary is obviously the oldest sibling and John is her younger brother. The stories are by Gilbert Delahaye and the English versions were published by Ward Lock Limited, London in the Giant Panda Series. One HBC reader tells us, "Marlier's illustrations depict French children's fashions during the early 1960s beautifully." I don't believe, however, that they were widely used in America.
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