WATERCOLOR

"'Twenty-five years ago, as I started working as an illustrator, a young girl wrote me to tell me that she liked my drawings. I thanked her. The girl has grown and has become a publisher. A few months ago Hélène Chan-Ok Charbonnier contacted me to do a book. She told me that she kept the postcard that I had sent her years ago. The book is now out. The story, tender and direct, tells of Ariane, a little girl from Korea, adopted like its author, Jee-Yung, like her publisher, Hélène Chan-Ok, like my daughter of Moroccan origin, like my Nigerian sister and brother. One day a young girl wrote me that my drawings were as beautiful as a fruit. It might have been another young girl, or perhaps it was Héléne.' "