And Adèle came into the world. When, in the 1980s, Claude Ponti, a press illustrator battered by life, was about to become a father, he also made “the decision to be happy”. “A child is the power of life, I can no longer spend my time drawing monstrous things to show how unbearable the world is. My daughter fit me like a glove, he smiles. I went from being a pessimist to a decision-making optimist. » For her, he designed three joyful albums, which ended up almost by chance in bookstores.
The critics are enthusiastic. Claude Ponti has “finally found his place”. Thank you, Adele. Thanks to her, her father established himself as the maestro of children’s literature with some 80 albums sold more than 8.5 million copies. We can no longer count his characters with names as tasty as Pétronille, Okilélé, Lili Prune, Oum-Popotte and other Foulbazar. We reread with as much pleasure as ever his incredible stories on the border of reality and imagination.