A PARIS PAIR (English) is short illustrated book for children about a brother and sister, Jeanette and Jean, who live in Paris and is ideal for children. It shows that children who live in other countries are not all that different after all. The book takes the reader through the children’s day in one-hourly blocks from waking in the morning through the day to bedtime in the evening. Each block is accompanied by a fun poem which explains what is happening plus provides a color image by Barbara Haven Brown, sister of the author. ABOUT THE AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR Beatrice Bradshaw Brown and Barbara Haven Brown lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts at the extreme tip of Cape Cod. They are both daughters of Harold Haven Brown, who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and also at the Académie Julian, and his wife, Florence Bradshaw Brown, who was educated at the Art Students League. ===================== KEYWORDS/TAGS: pair in Paris, poetry, poems, verse, childrens poems, appetite, appreciate, bandits, wails, bonne, childrens books, breeze, candles, rosy cheeks, concentrate, Corot, creamy soup, croissant, dainty, dance, déjeuner, lunch, Delicious, Dieu, dolly, dresses, engine, Frenchman, happy, great, Jean, Jeanette, lark, Louvre, Jardin du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Gardens, Minette, Mistress, Mona, omelette, Oo-là-là, rapture, Roaring, Salad, Sister, sleepy-head, Spinach, tea, teacher, tippy-toes, Titian, train, tumble, tunnels, Venus, da Vinci, wings, fairy, fairies, story, paris, life, children, a day,

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