Item
Fables: Jean de La Fontaine
- Title
- en_US Fables: Jean de La Fontaine
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Creator
- en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Guibert, Emmanuel
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:19Z
- 2024-04
- en_US 2020
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:19Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2020
- Abstract
- en_US "Un livre pour les vacances." This book was given to French CM2 elementary school pupils, ages 8-9, as their summer reading. 25 fables get two to four pages for text and illustrations. The latter are often enough in panels, four to a page, showing the progress of a story. The visual presentations show humor and some healthy exaggeration, as when the bone taken from the wolf's throat has a long ribbon of slime (23). The wolf's snarl in WL is palpable (17). The two pots bounce along arm in arm (25). A bloody splat is all that is left of the frog in OF (27). This illustrating style combines fun and insight! Guibert has helped me to notice that, in La Fontaine's telling, the goat and fox both enter the well together to quench their thirst (40-41). The fox's laugh as he looks back down into the well may be the most effective of Guibert's two-page illustrations (42-43). FS has six pages, including two excellent presentations of the contrasting meals (58-63). There is a T of C at the end. 6¼" x 9¾".
- Identifier
- en_US 13568 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Réseau Canopé: IPE Image Press Édition
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books