#claude ponti

[we-can-be-heroes]

Drawings by Claude Ponti

[thelastofthebookworms]

I was listening to an interview of one of the most well-known French picture books' writer/illustrators I've loved since kindergarten and at some point he said something like "Kids always have to be adopted, even if you've made them yourself" and I've been thinking about it all day

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ThanX so much 4 ℹ️ @muldersjpg this cute Art is a creation of Claude ponti 🌱 xxx

Green sculpture in botanical garden in Nantes, France

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Re: tags in recent post about you working at a bookstore

I volunteer at my local library and I absolutely LOVE handling the picture books. I have a strong fondness for them and love seeing the variety of art styles and subjects. It always makes my day pulling a childhood favorite for a patron who requested it on hold. Sometimes I wish I could have the whole section to myself so I can browse the books freely without judgement haha.

Got some to recommend? And what are some of your nostalgic favorites?

Yes! Sometimes I see parents looking for a book for the children with them and seeing a book from their own childhood and deciding on picking that one because it makes them nostalgic and they want to share their memories with the new generation... I love it

(Most of the time it's Chien Bleu by Nadja)

Also some picture books deal with such difficult subjects that sometimes as a seller I just don't know what to do with it, like, those are really niche subjects and I wish I could give them the opportunity to shine but the market is what it is, so we're lucky to have libraries to take care of them <3

I guess I grew up with very well known picture books that my mom chose for me, like The Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer, Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney or The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments by Arnold Lobel. Also lots of classic tales from the Père Castor collection.

For some modern picks, I absolutly love Matthew Forsythe's work with Pokko and the Drum (I adore frogs in picture books. I collect them.) and for the youngests I always go to Big Bear Hug by Nicholas Oldland. Olivier Tallec's squirrel is always hilarious. I love Stéphane-Yves Barroux's work, and would even advise adults to read them very seriously.

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Claude Ponti, Ma Vallée

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tagged by @robinsnest2111 ty bestie <3

3 ships you like: pinkiedash, hellcheer, leverage ot3

Honorable mention: any ship dynamic involving mick mars

First ship ever: in a fandom kind of way, probably uhhh soarindash. also because of youtube pmvs. obviously.

Last song you heard: smth off of "Lower the Bar" because i'm on a massive steel panther kick rn

Favourite childhood book: i loved multiple of Claude Ponti's books, and they've definitely influenced my psyche a lot

Currently reading: many many things. too many to count. i'm really not reading fast these days.

Currently watching: still leverage technically, but it seems the website i was using went down :(

Currently craving: entertainment

tagging uhh @tulipcolouredboy @hysterionic @electricpentacle @samathekittycat @possibly-in-wonderland idk feel free to use that tag if you wish

[caleblandrybones]

if you've been drawing for a while, who were your inspirations as a kid? mine were quentin blake, nick sharratt and claude ponti

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He did and I just found out about pomme's music it's like gentle and magical and delightful idk man I love tumblr

babe wake up notorious french children's books illustrator claude ponti made the artwork for pomme's latest album

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tagged by @manicr. :3

Tag people to get to know better or catch up with.

Three ships you like - Morpheus/The Corinthian (Sandman), Kakuzu/Hidan (Naruto), Crossbones/Bullseye (Marvel), it was really hard to think of ships that don't contain my ocs 😫

First ship ever - Prowl/Barricade (Transformers) or Saga/Kanon (Saint Seiya) listen don't judge me I was 10 i swear i can exp—

Last song you heard - Granite by Sleep Token

Favorite childhood book - Blaise et le Château d'Anne Hiversère by Claude Ponti. It's one of those kids' books that has really cool drawings, even though the story itself is basically non-existent. Full of puns!

Currently reading - Trans Wizard Harriet Porber And The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: An Adult Romance Novel by Chuck Tingle. it sounds like a joke, it's surprisingly good

Currently watching - Nothing, really, but the last thing I watched was the Pluto anime. Traumatizing

Currently consuming - Mixed biscuits and cookies from one of those grandma tins

Currently craving - like a really good steak

tagging @freebirdyance @fettucine-afraido @lost-soul-in-time @murdersinthemaking @dblairlaw

[lilias42]

Merci @ladyniniane de m'avoir tagué !

3 ships qu'on aime : c'est pas vraiment mon truc les ships amoureux et dans ce que je lis, c'est souvent des couples officiels donc, j'en ai pas beaucoup... si je dois vraiment en dire, ce serait :

Sylvix de FE3H (leur soutien touche toutes les bonnes cases pour moi, j'aime bien leur dynamique et les artistes ont fini de me faire fondre sur ce couple)

Agnéa et Hikari d'Octopath Traveler 2 (je sais, c'est le couple que le jeu force avec la subtilité d'un tractopelle dans leur itinéraire à deux... mais je les aimes bien ensemble tous les deux ! Leurs discussions sont mignonnes, ils s'inquiètent l'un pour l'autre, le moment où Hikari propose à Agnéa de lui tenir la main dans leur quête à deux pour qu'elle ne tombe pas dans le tombeau me fait fondre, et je trouve que leurs personnalités vont bien ensemble avec Hikari qui est certes calme mais aussi très soucieux des autres et même assez idéaliste pour son pays, et Agnéa qui est plus énergique et extraverti tout en voulant aussi apporter le bonheur aux gens. C'est juste un couple très mignon ^^)

Link et Zelda dans Tears of Kingdom après avoir été longuement amis dans Breath of the Wild (classique mais, après tout ce qu'ils ont vécu, l'enfer de la guerre, puis de la seconde, l'inquiétude et le dévouement de Link envers Zelda qui la cherche partout quand elle disparait à nouveau, la confiance absolue de Zelda envers Link et son envie de l'aider à protéger son peuple, quitte à se sacrifier pour donner sa force à l'Epée de Légende, le fait qu'ils aient dû réapprendre à vivre dans un monde après avoir été absent pendant 100 ans... laissez les s'aimer tous les deux, ils le méritent !)

Tout premier navire : alors là... Katara + Aang dans Avatar peut-être ? Le Sylvix pour être vraiment investie dedans ? Je ne sais plus donc, joker.

Dernière chanson entendue : la reprise de On The Sea de Tungsten par Andra Ariadna, sa voix grave porte à merveille cette chanson, même sans comprendre les paroles (qui sont très bien en plus après avoir vu les lyrics).

On the sea, I am free This is where I want to be Without all the pain, without all the hate It's here I want to stay

I'm on the ocean traveling But not all alone The water, the sunlight Are with me in sight

Livre d'enfance préféré : podium partagé entre L'ile des Zertes de Claude Ponti, les BD Tom-Tom et Nana de Jacqueline Cohen et Bernadette Després, et Astérix de Goscinny et Uderzo sans que je puisse les départager.

Lecture en cours : je ne lis pas trop en ce moment mais, en BD, les dernières que j'ai lu sont Elusive Samourai qui est un très bon shonen avec un héros assez original vu que son talent est la fuite et très attachant, vu qu'il veut éviter à un maximum de ses hommes de mourir, tout en étant très drôle à lire grâce aux idiosyncrasies des personnages plus bizarres et originales les unes que les autres, et Princesse Puncheuse qui est un excellent défouloir avec une héroïne que j'aime vraiment beaucoup ! (bref, surtout des histoires assez légères) Sinon, je dois me motiver pour reprendre la lecture sur Lacédémone et les femmes dans la Grèce Antique, ou sur Athènes et la Guerre de Troie pour faire un billet sur Pyrkaïa ou Kelon.

En train de regarder : pas une série mais, j'essaye de rattraper les films X-Men que je n'avais jamais vu mais, dont les thématiques me parlent (et Diablo est génial dans le deuxième film !) Il y a juste X-Men 3 que je vais sauter vu qu'il a l'air d'être une sacrée daube. Sinon, faut que je finisse la dernière saison du Prince Dragon.

Consommation actuel : [résiste à la tentation des chipster...]

Envie du moment : en aléatoire être prise à mon prochain entretien... et pour que je sais qui va arriver, les vacances en avril.

Pour les tags... on va dire (évidemment, vous le faites si vous voulez, quand vous voulez) @mwezina , @hotcuppacocoa , @mellowdarkness et @rosa-glaciem

[ladyniniane]

Thank you for tagging me @tockamybeloved!

3 ships you like: Okay, this one was a bit difficult because I don't necessarily have ships on my mind all of time. That being said:

-Dimileth (FE3H)

-Fu Yao and Wuji (Legend of Fu Yao)

-Jane and Silver (The Silver Metal Lover)

First ship ever: I...don't remember, sorry!

Last song you heard: Mermaids by Florence and The Machine.

And with your mermaid hair and your teeth so sharp You crawled from the sea to break that sailor's heart You only get one night upon the shore So dance like you've never danced before And the dance floor is filling up with blood But oh, Lord, you've never been so in love

Favourite childhood book: The endless tree by Claude Ponti

Currently reading: Just finished Mika Waltari's The Dark Angel (because I'm currentlt hyperfixating on the Byzantine Empire because it's my inspiration for a future WIP) and it was very well-written (I would have prefered the main female character to be less of a weathervane, but well).

Also reading The Nart sagas. Fascinating, especially regarding the parallels with myths of other cultures and the place given to female characters.

Currently watching: Queen Insoo! I like it so far. The FL is bold and ambitious and her dynamic with her step-mother is interesting.

Currently consuming: chocolate cake.

Current craving: Peace of mind and a good night's sleep. That would be great.

I'm tagging (if you want to!) @lilias42, @violets-in-her-arms-writes, @mwezina, @take-me-to-valhalla, @intricatecaprice @aninkwellofnectar.

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Salut ma bien-aimèe! I wanted to thank you again for the fic recs, and also let you know that your compliment of my frenglish has been living rent free in my head since you sent it and just thank you so much <3

But I did take your suggestion of sorting by word count, and found some drabbles that were translations, and I shouldn't be this surprised but the parallel reading between the English and French actually helped a lot! So I think I'm gonna go off the deep end and read Cambiare Podents >:)

In the meantime, I'm def gonna be getting ahold of the French editions of HP, but you mentioned having some regular book recs too? Whenever you have the time, I'd love to see those 👀👀 I don't want to use you as a free resource, but I really massively appreciate the time you've been putting into this for me and I super appreciate your patience with my very limited vocabulary!

That's all, have a lovely evening and sleep well!! Love you!!!

MON AMOUR!!!! You're welcome I loove talking about what I read especially to people who are interested. Honestly the frenglish took me out I had to comment on it like it's wild. I talked about you to my family (yeah I don't have classes to complain about at diner anymore and your message was sweet) and your word order wasn't usual when you said 'j'aimerais les bons mots utiliser' (you'd put the utiliser before that, j'aimerais utiliser les bons mots) but my dad thought it was charming and it sounded like Yoda. So. That's a compliment obviously. (talking more about my online friends so that when I have the money to take a plane to come see y'all my parents don't go 'who are you going to see??' also)

Hehe Cambiare Podentes was SO important to me honestly! I started with the french translation but there were only a few chapters translated and it stopped right as it was about to get more interesting, and since the chapters are all the size of a novella the translator was updating like once a month/every few months. I didn't want to wait thought so I said well surely I can read it in english! And now here I am. So I hope you have fun with it too!!!

You're not using me as a free ressource you're giving me enrichment!! I love love love talking way too much about things that interest me but usually people aren't on the same wavelength so they listen politely but they don't really care that much. Which is fine but it's so cool when you know your recs actually have a chance of being read! I'll find you a little list of books + try to get a clean epub/pdf because I just know a lot of the stuff I like isn't going to be available outside of France and I'd feel bad for giving you recs you can't get your hands on. There's also a few visual children's books I'm thinking of (like the Claude Ponti books) that I have at home that I could probably take pics of/scan if you want, once again because I have no idea of the availability outside of France and potentially neighbouring countries/Québec. You'll have to tell me if Cambiare Podentes is the right level or if you want some simpler stuff because I can also do children's books with smaller vocabularies and easier sentences, I just have to know haha.

Also if you want me to speak french at you/with you I have a lot of free time now so 👀👀 text/voice, whatever you want, I'm free a fair amount is all I'm saying.

Thank yoouu you too! I think you said you were going to a concert so I hope you had fun! (and I didn't know if I should say it in the replies but you looked really good in that pic you posted)

[we-can-be-heroes]

Juste shout-out à Claude Ponti pour toujours et à jamais….❤️‍🩹

[artsyfern]

CLAUDE PONTI

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Art examples!