A week after we came, it occurred to me that Mal’s meagre collection of books is not going to last him very long. You can find librairies (french) everywhere in Paris and there are already quite a handful around our neighbourhood. For a while, I was very happy and relief as I thought librairie (french) = library (english) which means I will have no problem getting books for Mal. My happiness and relief was short lived. I soon found out that librairie is not LIBRARY but is actually bookstore which only sell FRENCH books most of the time! I was told that they might not even have an English books section in town libraries! I began to panick and began searching on the net for English books. We thought the best choice we had was to either order from Amazon UK or Ebay UK, which we did. We found the book that we were reading half way before coming over and decided to order it. It was a thick book and it contains quite a few stories. We thought we were safe as this should be able to last us awhile. It costs us almost SGD 40 for the book and it has been more than 2 weeks, the book has yet to arrive.
Last week, a search on the net was finally paid off. I found the AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS!!! I was elated, overjoyed, ecstatic. I checked the time, 3 hours before the library closes at 7 pm. I called Daddy and arranged to meet him at the Metro station after work. There was no procrastination. It was URGENT. It eventually took us 2 hours to finally hunt down the place!
The library has a huge collection of English books. It is near to Daddy work place, near to Eiffel Tower which means not very far from our place. There is a story telling session for Mal’s age group every Wednesday just like the library we frequent in Luke. And with a annual family membership, which cost us EUR155, we are allowed to borrow 20 books, 12 magazines and 5 audio visual items at any one time. We had already made full use of the card. We had borrowed 21 library books. 4 for Daddy, 4 for Mummy and 13 for Mal 
(apparently they were not so stringent with the maximum number of books)
I know that library membership is free in Singapore and in the States, we don’t even need to pay a single cent and we get to borrow 50 books each time. But trust me, when you are as desperate as us, EUR 155 for 1 year is CHEAP! It’s like paying for a RARE GRM, in our case, a place in Paris where you can find English books!