''Pet et Répète: La véritable histoire'' is a French novel written by Canadian author

Katia Canciani Katia Canciani (born February 16, 1971) is a Canadian writer and aviator originally from Blainville, Quebec. She was awarded the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration for the novel '' Pet et Répète: La véritab ...

, illustrated by

Guillaume Perreault Guillaume Perreault (born in 1985) is a Canadian writer, illustrator, and comic book author originally from Rimouski, Quebec. He was awarded the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration for the novel '' Pet et Rép� ...

, and published in 2019 by Fonfon. It won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for French-language children's illustration.

Synopsis

''Pet et Répète: La véritable histoire'' is the real story of a couple of jokers, who are twin brothers. One has gas and the other is hard of hearing, hence why their mother had the sense to name one Pet and the other Répète. The story is of Pete (Pet) and Repeat (Répète) who are off on a boat. Pete falls out of the boat. Who's left? Repeat...

Awards

''Pet et Répète: La véritable histoire'' won the 2020

Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration The Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian illustrator for a children's book written in French. It is one of four children's book awards among the Gove ...

at the

2020 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2020 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on May 4, 2021, and the winners were announced on June 1.Le Devoir'', "This mischievous fable with great possibilities certainly deserves to be discovered, re-read and repeated loud and clear." In the French-language news magazine '' L'actualité'', Christian Lalonde characterizes Canciani's writing as having "sensitivity, and humanist values".

References

{{Reflist 2019 Canadian novels Governor General's Award-winning children's books 2019 children's books Canadian children's novels Children's books set on ships