The Beast of Monsieur Racine Isabelle Struble And as the pieces of

And as the pieces of his story fall into place

”―Patrick Radden Keefe

Reading the English translation of Julie Delporte's This Woman's Work makes me wish I could read it again in its original French—not for any imagined flaw in its translators' fluid prose (Helge Dascher and Aleshia Jensen)

no one needs to sweat it alone

unearthing a decades-old mystery about a missing child

The Beast of Monsieur Racine Isabelle Struble And as the pieces ofBy Tomi Ungerer. Published by Phaidon. Hardcover, 32 pages, Colour, 1971 Monsieur Racine wakes up one day to find his precious pear tree looted of all the award winning fruit. When he discovers that the culprit is funny looking beast, his anger gives way to curiosity and two become friends. But the beast is not quite what it seems, eventually it comes apart literally to show itself to be no beast at all, but the two playful children from next door,