Item
Faules de La Fontaine
- Title
- en_US Faules de La Fontaine
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: Catalan
- en_US First printing
- Jean de La Fontaine, adapted by Miguel Pujadó
- Creator
- en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Boutavant, Marc
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:18Z
- 2024-07
- en_US 2023
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:18Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2023
- Abstract
- en_US I liked this book very much when I found it in Paris, and my response is the same now as it appears in Catalan. I will include my comments from that edition, whose pagination and illustrations are just the same as they are here. The back cover speaks insightfully of Boutavant's humor and impertinence. Illustrations come in a variety of sizes but regularly offer a portal of interpretation. The title-page features an insect in a rainstorm holding a leaf as an umbrella. Soon (5) we learn that that is the grasshopper on his way to the ant. The mice in TMCM lie luxuriously in a bowl at the city banquet but, across the page, look out fearfully from a hiding place (8 and 9). The wolf has the lamb securely tucked under his arm as he heads into the woods (19). DW finishes with a great image of the wolf running -- and smiling as he does so (25)! While various frogs demonstrate politically, one is lifted up by a beak (39). For TT, Boutavant selects the moment when the tortoise has slipped off of his ride (53). The milkmaid's pitcher now has become a flower pot (58)! The poor ass is carrying a piano up the mountain path (65). The book finishes in lovely fashion with the standard portrait of La Fontaine, only now as a fox! 7¾" x 10½". 71 pages. Ona features only books in Catalan. I happened by late on a Saturday and was surprised and delighted to find them open. They had to search for this one fable book that they could offer!
- Identifier
- en_US 13560 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US spa
- Publisher
- en_US Barcanova Editorial
- en_US Barcelona
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books