Ages 9-12 - 17 pages, 327 words | 8 minutes of reading | © Les 400 coups, 2021, for the 1st publication - all rights reserved
The Bests are all the talented athletes, true champions. Except for Alex, who doesn't really look like his family members. He dreams of painting masterpieces rather than lifting weights and barbells. He's small rather than muscular and gigantic. And for that, he's his father's disappointment. One day, an idea grows in his mind to make them smile. Will Alex succeed?
This moving book shows the incapacity of certain adults to accept their children as they are. It's showing the absurdity of personal desires and dreams that adults project onto their children.