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Beatrice Appia's Histoire de Perlette is one of my favorite children's books. I first saw it on BibliOdyssey and eventually tracked down a copy. (In August, Agence Eureka uploaded a full set of quality scans.) Published in 1935, a year before "Perlette," Conte de la Marguerite features a more traditional protagonist: a humanized daisy rather than a humanized raindrop. My copy is a 1959 French reprint. There was also a 1939 US edition titled Tale of a Daisy.

Beatrice Appia (1899-1998) was born in Switzerland, and I think she's the daughter of architect and set-designer Adolphe Appia (an interesting figure I hope to feature soon). She was married to the writer Eugene Dabit (1898-1963).

Post title: Chaucer via wikipedia: "It is thought that the name 'daisy' is a corruption of 'day's eye,' because the whole head closes at night and opens in the morning. Chaucer called it 'eye of the day.'"

(cover)

(I love the way two scenes are illustrated on one page)

(back cover)

Cover of US edition

Previously:

—Eskimo Grasshoppers: French Children's Books of the 30s and 40s
—Birds, Berets, and Butterflies: French Children's Books 1900 to 1949
—Mimpish Squinnies