Albums du petit poussin

Dear collectors,
Could you tell me how many titles have appeared under this series  " Albums du petit poussin" ?
I would also like to know when did it start ?
I could find this book, published in 1965 which is illustrated by Simon Romain. This drives me to ask another question.
Is Simon Romain a French Illustrator?

Hello,

I'm afraid I'm unable to address your first question.
As to Romain Simon, I found the following biographical information, but in French only:

http://raymondperrin.blogspot.com/2011/07/

So, yes, he was indeed French and was born in 1916 in the east of France.

Thank you so much  snarkhunter  for this interesting page.
I was quite confused when I found that he illustrated this book from The Wonder books series which is obviously American one and was later translated into different languages, including French.
Can I understand that He illustrated the English copy before it was translated into French?
or the first version has appeared in French ...  then It was translated into English?????
the picture bellow shows that the book was published first by a French publisher and this might drive  me to another conclusion which mans that The Wonder Books was not an independent series as it relied on scattered titles from foreign languages !  

Hello Youcef,

I must apologize for this belated reply to your post which I only found tonight.
As you can see, the problem with people who have a one track mind is that they are so obsessed with their own pursuit that they hardly have eyes for anything else!

In any case, I just looked for the ALBUMS DU PETIT POUSSIN but could only find three of them (see their covers below) :

BONNE NUIT LES PETITS - LA FÊTE A NICOLAS
BONNE NUIT LES PETITS - NOUNOURS JOUE A CHAT PERCHE
BONNE NUIT LES PETITS - NOUNOURS JOUE A CACHE-CACHE

They are related to a very popular children TV program which was broadcast in the sixties (last century): BONNE NUIT LES PETITS (which can be translated as "Good Night, Kids!").
These books were published in 1965 by Hachette under agreement with the ORTF (i.e. an acronym that was used at the time to name the French TV organisation).


It seems to me that it's not quite unlikely that this short lived book series was turned into another short lived Hachette series: MON BEL ALBUM HACHETTE 
which also carried some books with the main character of Nounours:

NOUNOURS AUX SPORTS D'HIVER
NOUNOURS PARACHUTISTE
LE CIRQUE DE NOUNOURS

Claude Laydu, the French author who created the character of NOUNOURS ("Teddy Bear" for French Children) was a very prolific writer and his production met with a huge success. NOUNOURS even had his very own magazine:
LE JOURNAL DE NOUNOURS (copies of which you could find on Ebay).
Indeed a large number of BONNE NUIT LES PETITS books was published not only by Hachette but also by Deux Coqs d'Or in what may have been a rival book series LES ALBUMS D'OR :

NOUNOURS ET CORNICHON
NOUNOURS CHEZ LE COIFFEUR
NOUNOURS A LA MER
NOUNOURS CHEZ LES ABEILLES

(please note that there could be other books in the three above mentioned series)

To be fair, I'm not in the least familiar with these books but I'm pretty sure that there is a very long way to go for devoted fans of NOUNOURS, such is the extent of the merchandising materials that was sold at the time of his fame.

Thanks a lot for this detailed information