Caroline Sur La Lune (Caroline on the Moon) 1965

 

A nice treat today as Caroline goes to the Moon! This was a popular French fictional series but I had not been able to find the one about the Moon trip until recently. The illustrations are beautiful and full color. Well worth examining each one for its details.

Pierre Probst (1913-2007 ) introduced Caroline and her feisty animal friends to the French public in 1952, and added to the series for a decade. He created Caroline, based on his tomboyish daughter Simone. The illustrations are charming, full color, and with wonderful two-page spreads with great comic details. Caroline' is about seven years old, and has blonde hair with pigtails. She lives by herself among a band of friends - the dogs Bobby and Rusty, the cats Puff and Inky, the bear Bruno, a lion and a panther. Pierre Probst's greatest gift was for showing the human emotions on the faces of Caroline's animal friends, and his real daughter Simone can remember her father drawing from a mirror as he himself performed the grimaces and guffaws that he wanted to convey.

Enjoy the adventure. (Sorry that some of the spreads get edges cut off.)

Probst, Pierre. Caroline Sur La Lune (Caroline on the Moon). Paris: Grands Albums Hachette. (30 p.) 1965.

I like Caroline's and her animal friends' faces as they undergo extra "G's"

A really nice detailed illustration of approaching the Moon.

I enjoy "fighting off" the meteors with tennis rackets.

L'espace (1972)

 

Part of a series of French children's books (Cadet-rama), L'espace focused on astronomy and spaceflight. I really like the illustration style, a simple and modern approach. 

Grée, Alain.  Illustrated by Alain Grée. L'espace, Éditions Casterman. 29 p. 28 cm, 1972.

L'Espace (1962)

Guillot, René. Illustrated by Giannini.  L'espace: Encyclopédie en couleurs.
Geneve: Hachette. (100 pp.) 1962

So this is a sort of re-run. I blogged about the English translation of this book here 10 years ago:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2009/09/astronomy-1963-whitman-world-library.html

So I did many more scans so you can appreciate the wonderful art in this book. Originally printed in French this has a number of beautiful painting of the planets adn of proposed manned exploration.

 The first part of the book takes us through the planets.

And last is Pluto

 In the second part they talk about manned flight and what had happen so far and what was to come.

Satellites Artificiels (Man-made Satellites) (1958)

A late summer re-run of sorts.

This is the French edition of Man-made Satellites (1957) which I blogged about almost exactly 5 years ago in 2010 in my 200th Blog post. (this one is number 462!)


http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/09/man-made-satellites-1957.html

The 4 book Adventure in Space series was translated into French and Spanish. But I can still not get enough of the incredible John Polgreen paintings used to illustrate these books.