Tomi Ungerer could easily be considered one of the greatest of all author-illustrators of children’s picture books…. That is, if he wasn’t also one of the greatest author-illustrators of hilarious porno picture-books! In a filmed interview I did with Tomi many years ago, he said to me, “When I was a little boy, I was full of mischief!” He said that one of mischiefs was to crawl under his family dinner table when there were guests, and with a bellows he’d taken from the fireplace, blow cold air up the skirts of the lady diners! No doubt that put him on course to become one of the leading hypocracy bashers of our time. That’s what has constantly gotten him into trouble. He has assembled one of the greatest collections of mechanical toys in the world, now housed in his own museum in Strasbourg. His range of style is amazing. He is a wide-ranging genius artist and was a joy to work with. Whatever you want to think of Tomi Ungerer, it can’t be said that he is timid. He tells it as it is, and he does it in style. His children’s books are not thin kiddie soup but hot spicy meals! As an illustrator, I consider him the greatest draftsman I know. His origins from a family of clockmakers led him to a love all things mechanical. When he draws any kind a machine, no matter how funny it is, you can be sure it would work. ....Hanging on our Prague bedroom wall, as if for inspiriation, are two slightly naughty Frog sketches, one for Zdenka and one for me, that Tomi made for us at the time we shot the documentary film with him in 1972. (https://genedeitchcredits.com/roll-the-credits/54-tomi-ungerer-2/)