In normal times, it is difficult enough to address children to explain the nature of a phenomenon. So what about in difficult times? Children are smart and capable of understanding, but we have to make sure that the approach is a happy one. So how do we approach the subject of the Covid-19 pandemic with children? How do we talk to them without further dramatizing things, because the damage has been done somewhere? Indeed, the coronavirus has been over-publicized and it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Too much information, not only contradictory, but alarming and defeatist, was circulating, taking hostage both adults and children.
Yes, children also have the right to information. However, this information must be reliable, clear, understandable, and free of rumors and misinformation. The Covid-19 pandemic is a thorny, burning, dramatic, worrying and distressing subject at the same time. Can we avoid it? No, on the contrary, we must approach it with tact, sensitivity and responsibility. I have taken the actions and information of the World Health Organization (WHO) as a starting point for writing this series, which is both essential and difficult. Taking on such a challenge is not easy, as it requires psychology and pedagogy to claim this kind of writing. Being a writer with a beautiful pen is not enough when it comes to this kind of literature.

This perilous exercise has a price: an investment in effort and time. Nevertheless, it paid off: The Little Corona was born! I feel completely satisfied and hope that the children and their parents will be too. The Little Corona is a series that tells the story of the pandemic in a certain chronology. In fact, it is an answer to the questions of children and the questions of parents. To educate and to please, to explain and to satisfy, to tell and to please, these are the goals set by The Little Corona in all modesty. Educational, it popularizes information to make it accessible in simple, useful and true French. Even the grammar has its own little lot where the concordance of tenses goes crescendo from number to number. The compound tenses have adopted the right attitude of going step by step without ever rushing while using real data. And to finish this panoply, English and Spanish were added to accustom and encourage children to foreign words. The Little Corona and El Pequeño Corona are the new friends of the French Little Corona, the oldest of the series.

The Little Corona has focused on the family in general and the role of parents in society, emphasizing work and solidarity within the community. Grandparents, parents, neighbors, friends and other citizens are used to explain the benefits of intra-family and inter-community relationships. The relationships between nations and countries are also addressed, but without going into too much detail. This parsimony is just to explain the other face of the pandemic. Besides, I tried to relativize this coronavirus which is scaring the whole world according to some media. Yes, it is a disease that makes people talk, but that does not make as much damage as other plagues and diseases like war, famine, road accidents and seasonal flu.

Indeed, the coronavirus is contagious. Invisible to the naked eye like other known viruses, it makes the whole world tremble. Nevertheless, it is not the end of the world and the Earth continues to turn by distilling us life with its eternal beauty. It's just a disease that we can protect ourselves from and that we can also catch and especially escape. This series, intended for children as well as their parents, must help them to go through this particular ordeal or any other similar one by playing down the situation. I start from the principle that children are intelligent beings who can have a great imagination while reading.