| Blue Boy | |
| Author: | Jean Giono |
| Title Orig: | Jean le Bleu |
| Translator: | Katherine A. Clarke |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Publisher: | Éditions Grasset |
| Pub Date: | 1932 |
| English Pub Date: | 1946 |
| Pages: | 316 |
Blue Boy is a 1932 novel by French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional anecdotes. An English translation by Katherine A. Clarke was published in 1946.[1]
The novel was the basis for Marcel Pagnol's 1938 film The Baker's Wife. The film stars Raimu, Ginette Leclerc and Charles Blavette.[2] Pagnol's film was in turn adapted into the American musical The Baker's Wife, which premiered in 1976.[3] It was also the basis for the 2010 television film La Femme du boulanger, directed by Dominique Thiel.[4]