Miss Moussetache aka Mimimou

At exactly 02.47 PM on 3rd October 2007 in Central Park, New York, I discovered poodles scare me. At that moment in time a perfectly trimmed, white poodle was walking majestically towards me and I swear the pavement cracked underneath his paws: he was so big, he was able to look me in the eye. I used to beg my parents to get me a poodle when I was a little girl, but from that day on, my conception of a 'poodle' had changed. All information in our mind is stored in little boxes, which we then label with a name and fill with a memory, a rough concept and an emotion. My poodle box said 'cuddly; small and fluffy; happiness' but when I saw the poodle mentioned previously, my mind and my senses conflicted with what I thought a poodle to be and I was forced to renew my information box. I changed that into 'scary; BIG and fluffy; fear'. Then I realized there was another box which information was very similar to the giant poodle's, its label read 'monster'. ...

Have you ever read Le Petit Nicholas? It's a series of books created by Rene' Goscinny, the author of Asterix, and world-renowed illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempe' about the adventures of schoolboy Nicholas and his friends. They go fishing for tadpoles, play a complicated game of soccer or visit an art gallery, but things never quite go according to plan... You cannot read this without smiling - it's like eating frizzy pazzy chewing gum. I have just discovered a movie was made last year starring Nicholas, Geoffrey, Alec and all the others. It's too cute to be true! I can highly recommend this!