I had this French textbook at school when I was about 6. It had stories with vocab, then exercises, but every single story was about a wasp invading a classroom and driving a teacher into Basil Fawlty-esque rages. All the stories had the same plot, just with different wasp antics, it was really odd and I try to google it every so often and come up with nothing ..
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Mystery Fench Textbook - la guêpe qui rit
I had this French textbook at school when I was about 6. It had stories with vocab, then exercises, but every single story was about a wasp invading a classroom and driving a teacher into Basil Fawlty-esque rages. All the stories had the same plot, just with different wasp antics, it was really odd and I try to google it every so often and come up with nothing ..
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