My beloved Tintin albums exist in 17 x 22 cm format (barely bulkier than an iPad mini). Rather for 7-year-olds than 77-year-olds, all schoolchildren should be able to read them: municipal libraries, bookmobiles, book-filled bags carried by volunteers on their mules from village to village... There's more to life than consoles, tablets, or e-readers. I quite like this comic strip trying to convert a Gen Z youngster to reading: "No need to press ON, and it never shuts down"... At 7 years old, it was at "La Librairie de Madagascar" in Analakely that I discovered my first Tintin albums, in 22 x 30 cm format. More than 40 years later, with pleasure mixed with tenderness, I found some again at "La Librairie de Madagascar" in Majunga. And I bought them, for the joy of it. Much for the memory, too. My last visit to Boina was a while ago, because the RN4 was no longer a road but a real scandal, but the bookstore was closed. Now that I'm much closer to 77 than to 7 years old, I can certainly advise children: there's always something left from reading a book, "Bibliothèque rose," "Bibliothèque verte" or even "Série Noire." A certain generation could have been Naruto and Dragon Ball, which also exist in "Bibliothèque verte." My era leaned more toward "The Famous Five," "The Six Companions," "Buffalo Bill." Still grateful to the library of Petit Collège at Saint-Michel. At 7 years old, rather give Tintin to read. We knew by heart the title and cover drawing of each album whose panels made us want to see the back cover. You had to have read "The Seven Crystal Balls" to understand "Prisoners of the Sun." Know that Captain Haddock only appears in "The Crab with the Golden Claws" (No. 8) while the Thom(p)sons were there from the first panel of the very first opus, "Tintin in the Congo." Remember that Rastapopoulos returns in four of the twenty-two albums that originally decorated the last page: except "The Land of the Soviets," "Tintin and Alph-Art" or "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks." One single book, for an entire world of memories, of evocations. Tintin to learn French, but rather Asterix to imitate Albert Uderzo's style. A rite of passage to continue with the less "kawaii" drawings of Bob Morane, Buck Danny, Blueberry. At 77 years old, toward infinity and beyond. Nasolo-Valiavo Andriamihaja