Holidays of small Nicolas

the Holidays of small Nicolas is an illustrated novel of Rene Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé published in 1962, a novel which puts in scene the character of the same name. It counts 18 stories.

List stories

It is dad who decides

This year, it is decided, it is the dad of Nicolas who chooses where the family will spend her summer holidays! And with his great surprise, neither his wife nor her son contradicts it. Though…

The beach, it is owl

Nicolas and his parents are finally on vacation in Brittany. The little boy is content, it was made full to buddies super owls with which it can exploit the beach! During this time, its dad feels sorry for his colleagues who remained at the office…

The pare-in-train

Brittany, it is owl, but sometimes, it rains there. How to occupy a band of turbulent kids in a hotel one day of rain? Fortunately, Mr Lanterneau is there!

The island of the Spray

Nicolas and his parents will do one strolls in the island of the Spray in boat, accompanied by Mister and Mrs Lanterneau. But the voyage will not be whole rest…

The gym

Nicolas and his buddies of holidays have a new professor of gymnastics, which is called Hector Duval. This one will try to initiate the children with the joys of the sport…

The miniature golf

Nicolas persuades his father to take it along him and his buddies to the miniature golf.

One plays the commercial one

The days of rain, it is necessary to find to occupy itself while the parents make the nap. Then one plays charts between buddies, for example. But it is without counting the three girls of the hotel…

One returned

The holidays are finished. Nicolas and his parents return to the house. But the little boy is bored and it will be necessary to find what to occupy itself until his/her buddies return from holidays.

Be reasonable is needed

One New Year's Day school is completed and Nicolas is anxious: he still does not know where he will leave on vacation. His/her parents, highly-strung persons, announce the news to him: this year, it will leave in colony, all alone . How Nicolas will he react?

The departure

It is the great day: Nicolas leaves in holiday camp!

Courage!

The voyage by train occurred well. Nicolas discovers his holiday camp, his country cottage, his monitors and the buddies of his team, " Eye-of-Lynx" , whose war cry is " Courage! ".

The bathe

What prefers Nicolas in his camp, it is the bathe! But all his/her buddies do not share his enthusiasm…

The point of the Gusts of wind

An excursion with the point of the Gusts of wind is organized for all.

The nap

If Nicolas likes to bathe, it is not the case of the nap. All the means are good to try to escape from it!

Play of night

A play of night is organized in the camp But in the black, to hold a band of turbulent kids is not easy thing!

Fish soup

Gerard Lestouffe, the monitor of the Eye-of-Lynx team, takes them along to fishing, persuaded that this resting activity will be able to calm them.

Crepin has visits

The holiday camp, it is well, but nevertheless, the children find lack of their moms and their dads. Then what a Crepin chance has to receive the visit as of his!

Memories of holidays

Nicolas returned of colony. He finds with joy his dad and his mom… and his small neighbor, Marie-Edwige Courteplaque, with whom he will have a joy of telling her prowesses of holidays.

Anecdotes

During the history the nap , Gerard Lestouffe tells a history with the children: " There was once, in a very remote country, a caliph who was very good, but which had a very malicious vizier… " . Goscinny was inspired later by this to create Iznogoud. Moreover, Nicolas says that the continuation of the history speaks about the caliph who disguises himself to see what people think of him, which is the intrigue of an episode of Iznogoud .

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