The exhausting school year is over. Nicholas received a prize for eloquence—not so much for quality as for quantity—and said goodbye to his friends—Alceste, Rufus, Edd, Geoffroy, Meksan, Joachim, Clotair, and Anian. Books and notebooks are stacked away, and it’s time to think about rest.
But in Nicholas’s family there’s no problem with choosing where to go for the holidays.
“Little Nicholas” is a children’s book series about a boy named Nicholas and his friends, authored by René Goscinny (writer of the comics “Asterix and Obelix”) and the artist Jean-Jacques Sempé. The books have been translated into 37 languages worldwide (in Russian, it was translated by Irina Pressman). Stories about the “French equivalent of Denis’ka” are a great success. The events take place in France in 1962, that is, before the 1974 reform, when boys studied separately from girls and Thursday was a day off for schoolchildren.
Funny stories have been adapted for film many times.