Congratulations to Françoise, honored by French Minister of Foreign Affairs for her contribution to children's books.

On June 9, 2016, at the mansion of the French Embassy in New York Françoise Mouly, founder and publisher of Toon Books, art editor of The New Yorker and cofounder of RAW, the pioneering art comics magazine, was honored with the Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur. The red-ribbonned medal, France’s highest for civil merit, was presented by former Prime Minister of France, Jean-Marc Ayrault, currently French Minister of Foreign Affairs in recognition of Mouly's groundbreaking career as an editor and publisher of comics and children's books. The ceremony followed the Franco-American Children’s Book Publisher Conference, a day-long symposium on American and French children’s publishing.