Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles

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Madame Pamplemousse is tolerant of her husband's perplexing goings-on, although irritated by his untidiness, muddy shoes and stray hairs. Rupert studied Philosophy at Bristol University and Play Writing at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He and his faithful, intelligent bloodhound, Pommes Frites, become involved with, investigate, and solve crime mysteries.

Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles

Aristide Pamplemousse is the central figure in a series of eighteen comic novels by Michael Bond, published between 1983 and 2015. Downtrodden by her greedy and dishonest uncle Monsieur Lard in whose restaurant, the Squealing Pig, she is forced to work, Madeline makes the lucky discovery of Madame Pamplemousse and her cat Camebert.Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. When Madeline’s friend Madame Pamplemousse mysteriously disappears she is guided to the café and soon Madeline, Madam Pamplemousse and her cat Camembert are off on a trip into the past to capture the drool of a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a tear from a Sphinx which, they hope, will save Paris. Before long Monsieur Moutarde, Madame Pamplemousse, her cat, Camembert, and her friend, Madeleine, are on the run through time and space to capture a T.

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Its Director, Henri Leclercq, [7] lives in some style in a large house on the fringe of Paris, and is something of a snob, adding a q to the surname Leclerc, to make it more distinguished.Crazy foods like Rolled Tyrannosaurus Rex Tongue and Cobra Brains in Black Butter along with spooky cats who walk on two legs plus a lovely snarky feel to the whole story make this a delightful read. In addition to detesting the spartan regime, Pamplemousse begins to suspect something more sinister behind the establishment, with a hearse in daily attendance, and he exposes a cocaine smuggling operation. This was part of a library sale, so I decided to take a chance on it - it was not bad, but I don't think I will be continuing with this series.

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The novels include details of the classic French dishes tasted by Pamplemousse, and on occasion by Pommes Frites, whose palate is put to the test in Monsieur Pamplemousse and the French Solution, in which his skills are shown off in a blind tasting where he distinguishes top quality poulet de Bresse, agneau des Pyrénées and Charolais beef from inferior competitors. She spent her days at the kitchen sink, large stacks of dishes and pots were heaped about her, all covered in filthy grease. In the Irish Independent Ruth Dudley Edwards felt that Bond had not fully made the leap from children's fiction to its adult counterpart, "much knowledgeable carry-on about food and wine and jolly sex scenes notwithstanding". The foods that are described are all things that sound disgusting- “Minotaur salami” and “Cobra brains in black butter”.

Découvrant la boutique et l'excellence de ses produits, Monsieur Lard oblige Madeleine à espionner Madame Pamplemousse pour lui voler ses secrets et faire ainsi du Cochon Hurleur le restaurant le plus prisé de Paris.

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An occasional colleague in Pamplemousse's investigations is an Englishman, Mr Pickering of Burgess Hill, whom Le Guide retains as an adviser "on account of his vast and expert knowledge of wine … a fountain of information, as indeed he was on many other things". Très sympathique petit roman pour la jeunesse emprunt de magie, de cuisine et de chat borgne bien mystérieux. Rupert KINGFISHER 3 TOMES SOUS BOITIER : MADAME PAMPLEMOUSSE ET SES FABULEUX DELICES-MADAME PAMPLEMOUSSE ET LA CONFISERIE ENCHANTEE-MADAME PAMPLEMOUSSE ET LE CAFE A REMONTER LE TEMPS Traduit de l'anglais par Valérie Le Plouhinec 2015, Paris, Editions Albin Michel Jeunesse-Witty Format : In-12 (14 x 21 cm), broché, 126,123 et 137 pages illustré des dessins de Sue HELLARD Etat : très bon état, comme neuf poids : 1 kg.