I love Pierre Probst for ever

Pierre Probst is an illustrator of children's books. He's the creator of the lovely Caroline and her sympathic camp of littles animals, kittens, puppies, bear cub, lion cub and panther.

Caroline and her friends haves on each albums so odd adventures. The best albums are, I think, "Caroline in Canada", "Caroline and her friends throughout the ages", "Caroline and her friends in holiday camp". But you can read all of Pierre Probst you find in old publications.
I think it's very important in the life to smell an old publication of a Pierre Probst's book. A book who stayed a long time in a granary. It's incredible and moving. The atmosphere of Pierre Probst's books is so old frenchy, it's delicious.

For me, a great part of Pierre Probst's talent is in the manner he have to draw the eyes of the animals. It's very expressive and hilarious. They can be sometimes very excited, teased or very melancholic.

Born in Alsace in 1913, Pierre Probst devote himself quickly to Graphic Arts and start to work in publicity.
In Lyon, he turn to illustration for youth and in 1946, go in Hachette, in the Green Library (la Bibliothèque Verte). He participate to the creation of the famous collection Pink Albums with a lot of smalls pets : the kittens Pouf and Noiraud, the puppies Bobi, Pipo and Youpi, the bear cub Boum, Pitou the little panther and Kid the lion cub. These animals gonna join in 1953 a little girl called Caroline,

for an ininterrupted continuous of albums translates in 15 languages. In 1966, he create a new character : Fanfan, a little boy in love with the nature, surrounded, also, by a lot of littles animals.

In addition to his series for the youth, Pierre Probst had illustrated pedagogical and historical albums in the collection "The private life of the men" at Hachette publisher.

Pierre Probst died in april 2007 in Suresnes, near Paris.