Clo-Clo-Rico !

Songs Claude Léveillée Illustrations Manon Gauthier Singers Dumas, Florence K, Andrea Lindsay, Alexandre Désilets, Steve Normandin, Catherine Major

Take a walk down Memory Lane, back to the early days of television and rediscover 14 children’s songs by Claude Léveillée, one of Quebec’s most admired and celebrated songwriters. Today, many will be surprised to learn that he actually started out performing as Clo-Clo the clown, every Saturday afternoon, on French CBC, over fifty years ago.  And, as if that wasn’t enough to wet your appetite, some of the coolest young singers of the  French-Canadian music scene come on board and have one heck of shindig, doubling occasionally as chickens, goats and mice!  
Age :  2-7 / Pub date : 2009

Singer-songwriter

Claude Léveillée’s contribution to the French-speaking music scene has been enormous, at home and abroad.  His touching melodies and nostalgic lyrics impressed an entire generation, including Edit Piaf who invited him to live in Paris for a year, period during which she recorded one of his better-known songs Les vieux pianos.  He toured throughout the world in the 1960s and 70s, including the Soviet Union, and was the first Québécois invited to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Illustrator

Manon Gauthier illustrated her first children’s book in 2004, Ma maman du photomaton, by Guy Nadon, for which she was a finalist of the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Awards. She has, since, worked on several picture books including Oupilaille and Le vélo rouge by Dominique Demers (Éditions Imagine) and Croque by Thomas Fersen (Les 400 Coups). 

Quotes from the press

“14  songs that have really aged well, pleasing the parents as much as the children”
LA PRESSE

“A job well done”
LE JOURNAL DE MONTREAL