Louisette la taupe #[1]

From Casterman's charming miniBD line comes this delightful 2005 album featuring Louisette la taupe — a little mole whose vignette portrait peeks out warmly from the top of the soft blue cover. Below the bold, stamp-styled title Rapidissimo, a mustachioed postman in uniform barrels along on his motorcycle, a bundled-up passenger clinging on behind him as packages jostle about, all rendered in Bruno Heitz's wonderfully expressive, good-humored line. It's a perfectly inviting introduction to this cozy Franco-Belgian series for young readers.