Meet Miss Charlotte with this new, fully illustrated, color edition of The New Teacher. A book that inspires a love of reading! That morning, the whole class was silent. You could have heard a pea rolling on the floor. Then in the hallway, clop… clop… clop… a strange sound of footsteps. Suddenly, the door opened and a strange old lady with a funny hat appeared. It was her: Charlotte the Shallot, our new teacher. This strange teacher confides in a rock, makes us measure the class with spaghetti, and doesn't like dictations. This doesn't please the school principal or our parents, who want to fire her. But can we let go so easily of a teacher who reads us stories in such a way that we believe we are living what she is saying? Favorite book of young people aged 9 to 12, Palme Livromagie de Communication-Jeunesse, 1995-1996 Excerpt ― You, sir, would you like us to start this day with some division or a little geometry? Guillaume hates anything that resembles a number. ― No… No, madam… . Uh… No, miss. Uh… Not at all. The funny thing is that our new teacher seemed delighted with this answer. ― Would you like us to prepare a dictation then? This time, Mario didn't hesitate. He replied: ― No. Here, everyone hates dictations. It makes us very angry… The new teacher gave him a delighted smile. Her eyes sparkled with joy. ― Really? Ah! Good! Me too. That's exactly what our new teacher said. And she seemed perfectly sincere. At that moment, I thought that this strange old lady might have come from another planet. That normally she was small and green with three eyes aligned on her forehead. Her pebble served as a transceiver, connecting her to some fantastic ship waltzing through space some trillion light-years from our classroom. The worst part was, deep down, I might have been a little right.
