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In the third volume of this critically acclaimed series, Mousse learns during a visit from his niece that some treasures are truly priceless. Mousse has meticulously prepared for his niece Pistachio's arrival. He's gone to the bakery to buy fresh bread and cheese. In her room, he's set out a fresh notebook, with pens and colored pencils, and put together a small library with his favorite books. But Pistachio has plans of her own: she only wants to play in the waves. When Mousse receives a letter from his friend Barnacle about a rummage sale, he and Pistachio rush to the attic to prepare, stumbling upon the treasures hidden in his old house. What memories do they hold?

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Praise for How Dreadful!: “An unmitigated delight.” —Bruce Handy, The New York Times

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After studying at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, Claire Lebourg now lives and works in Rennes. Since then, she has published several picture books, including How Dreadful!and Like This, and an early reading series Mousse. In addition to her work as an author-illustrator, she creates maps and posters and organises talks and workshops for children and adults. Sophie Lewis has translated works from French and Portuguese by Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Ayme, Violette Leduc, Lela Slimani, Mona Chollet and Annie Ernaux, as well as Natalia Borges Polesso, Joo Gilberto Noll, Sheyla Smanioto, Victor Heringer and Patrcia Melo, among others. With Gitanjali Patel, she co-founded the Shadow Heroes workshops enterprise. Lewis's translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She was joint winner of the 2022 French-American Foundation prize for non-fiction translation, for Nastassja Martin's In the Eye of the Wild.

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