The Flying Cheese

Summer has come, which means new adventures await our good friends, the Jano brothers—and their parents. The summer menu: moving from their beloved Cherbourg, a vacation in the village with grandma and grandpa, a fish named Suppozitorium, a crowd of awkward cousins Fugas, and, of course, a mysterious object called “Flying Cheese.”

For those who have already tried “Omelet with Sugar” and want something even more unusual, we offer you “Flying Cheese” with a sauce of gentle humor by Arrue-Viñó. Jean-Philippe Arrou-Viñó is one of those six Jano brothers, about whom the story will be. More precisely—Jean B., the second oldest. From childhood he loved reading. In 1984 he published his first “adult” novel, for which he received the “Best Debut” award, and a few years later he released a second book—this time for children.

Today Arrou-Viñó, author of about thirty books, heads the children’s literature department at the largest independent French publishing house, Gallimard. His series “Adventures of the Jano Family from Cherbourg,” so loved by children and parents in France, he created together with the well-known illustrator Dominique Corbason, whose works can be seen in magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Madame Figaro, and Vanity Fair.

In spirit, “The Adventures of the Cherbourg Family” bring to mind the famous “Little Nicholas” by René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé: the heroes of the series are the same cheerful, restless boys who are always looking to get into some mischief.