New adventures of Little Nicolas appear for the centenary of the birth of René Goscinny

Are children reading less and less? Is school no longer the place of conviviality that it once was? Are worrying voices being raised to make a clean slate of the past again? Fortunately, a book will restore confidence, hope and smiles to all families this fall. The very year of the centenary of the birth of the man that José-Louis Bocquet, in the introduction to Goscinny et nous, a collection of his meetings with 38 friends, colleagues or students of the master (1), rightly describes as a "legend", new illustrated adventures of Little Nicolas appear. Sacrilege? No, because the writer and screenwriter had not prohibited his characters from surviving his death.

Successful succession

There was still a need for authors capable of reproducing the spirit and style which governed the writing of the adventures of the most famous schoolboy in France. It was Anne Goscinny and Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod who took on this strange challenge. With panache. But not only that. With crazy talent. They were…