These are the rather strange covers of the French and Dutch editions of The Birds, the Bees and Other Secrets. I'm not at all sure about the hat, but I suppose it's quite jolly. As for the cabbages...where did they come from?
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Perhaps 'les roses et les choux' (roses and cabbages) is the French equivalent of 'the birds and the bees'?
ReplyDeleteAlis - no, I don't think it is. I asked someone who knows these things. Rather mysterious.
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, the words "les roses et les choux" seem to have the same connotations in French as storks, or possibly gooseberry bushes, do in English - except baby boys are specifically found amongst the cabbages and baby girls amongst the roses. I think it sounds rather good as a title anyway - also very nice covers, by the way.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Len. I'm glad that little puzzle's been solved. It was the cabbages that worried me.
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