Contes del mèrle devinhaire - Maria Odila Dumeaux

Contes del mèrle devinhaire - Maria Odila Dumeaux

In her Contes del mèrle devinhaire (tales of the blackbird who was a soothsayer), Marie-Odile Dumeaux makes us discover her wonderful and fantastic world. She takes us to the other side of the mirror, in an original writing that knows how to transform objects or living beings, tales from tradition as memories of a little girl.
In the course of these tales, you will meet an enchanted kid, a little magic chair, marvelous birds, a delicious andouille, a wandering nose, wolves, devils or ogresses who are just a tad credulous, a shy and laughing hare, the wind locked in a calabash, the sky that almost collapses, a plucked blackbird and many other things...
With her fairy fingers, Marie-Odile Dumeaux knows how to play with our imagination. Her tales will please children as well as those who are not quite children anymore.

With an occitan-french lexicon. Cover illustration by Sophie Vissière.

You can choice: book only or book + CD MP3 (2 hrs 47 mins).

Book published by Letras d'Òc - Camins.


The author:
Maria-Odila Dumeaux, storyteller, passionate about Occitan oral culture, has already published a collection of mimologisms Paraulas d’ausèls with Letras d'Òc.
She has given her voice to the recording of our numerous audio books: Contes de mon molin, Tres aucèls de l’ombra, Tres Castèls del diable, Contes de la calandreta, Tres Palometas blancas, Los dus bessons, L'aucelon de las sèt colors.
Her warm voice highlights a language of oc that is both authentic and modern.

Born in 1986, Sophie Vissière studied Applied Arts at the Lycée des Arènes in Toulouse, as well as visual communication in Toulouse and Valencia (Spain). Today, as a graphic designer and illustrator, she is particularly interested in the different printing techniques as well as in the relationship between the form of the book and its content.
She has illustrated storybooks for children published by Letras d'òc - Camins in two versions, Languedoc and Gascon.
She regularly offers workshops for children around the book.