The wonderful Petit Nicolas is the way to read it.
When I read it, I find the flavor of my life as a child, my primary school, its wooden desks with removable ink, pen-and their pen Sergeant Major, the smell of chalk, friends, games balls and fights in the playground, the terrible (not that bad) Director, instit "tough but fair", monthly compositions, happiness back by buying at the bakery of the Bauer Coco or Mistral, hearty 4 am Thursday, the series Rin Tin Tin,
When my 11 year old daughter's bed, she finds cool characters, funny, always ready to do something stupid. She sees herself with her girlfriends and friends, her sorrows, her laughs.
Goscinny was why a great "medium" by re-emerge this naive world. His texts are dramatically illustrated, supported "supported" by the drawings of Sempé.
Le Petit Nicolas or timeless childhood, the perfect childhood.