Dutch · Beginner
Read Sprookjes van Jean Macé in Dutchwith every sentence explained
English title: Fairy Tales of Jean Macé
Jean Macé · 1862
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About the book
Sprookjes van Jean Macé by Jean Macé was first published in 1862. In Passage you read the full text in the Dutch translation by Hermanna, marked beginner and filed under children and fantasy. It runs to about 22,200 words.
A naughty boy, a lying girl, a little know-it-all — and the fairies who teach them a lesson.
Jean Macé loved children and loved telling them stories with a twinkle in his eye. In these five fairy tales, magic is never just for show: every enchantment holds up a mirror to a very ordinary fault.
In “The Little Rascal”, a boy so wicked that everyone calls him Rascal or Smash-it-all finally meets his match. Kind-hearted Blondkopje, a little boy with golden curls, longs to grow up only so he can do more good in the world. Bibi the mocker, Baba the greedy-guts and Bobo the lazybones wander too far into the woods; a prize-winning schoolboy discovers the danger of pride in “The Great Scholar”; and in “The Necklace of Truth” a little girl who fibs as easily as breathing receives a gift that gives her away.
The French educator Jean Macé wrote these moral fairy tales in 1862. They are retold here for Dutch children by Hermanna, in short, lively, easy-to-follow prose.
- Author
- Jean Macé
- First published
- 1862
- Language
- Dutch
- Translated by
- Hermanna
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Children, Fantasy
- Length
- About 22,200 words
How it opens
O, mevrouw, sta mij in ’s Hemelsnaam nog één vraag toe!
Er was eens een kleine jongen, die zoo stout was, dat ieder er schande over sprak. Hij sloeg de kindermeid, gooide moedwillig glazen en borden stuk, stak zijn tong tegen zijn vader uit en durfde zijn arme moeder, die hem, ondanks al zijn gebreken, hartelijk liefhad, boos van zich af te duwen, als zij hem, midden in een driftbui, in haar armen wilde nemen, om hem tot bedaren te brengen.
Reading Sprookjes van Jean Macé in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Dutch. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of Dutch and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
