Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

en_US Dautremer, Rébecca See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Dautremer, Rébecca

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:10Z

en_US 2008-05

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:10Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US This is my third copy of this book, but this copy has two differences from the other two. They were printed in Barcelona and have a publication date of 2003. Though I ordered another copy by mistake, I am happy to have an apparently more original copy printed in Luçon in France in 2001. I will repeat the remarks I made about those other two copies. This is one of the most delightful La Fontaine books I have seen recently. It shows wit and creativity as its illustrations bring the texts into contemporary life. Each of thirty fables receives a two-page spread in this landscape book's layout, as is clear from the T of C at the back. It will be hard to list all of the individual illustrations that I find impressive. GA's conversation is set on a Bienvenue doormat, on which the ant with his or her torso pointed out in front faces the cicada (2-3). Dautremer modernizes FC by putting the crow on top of a telephone pole (4-5). FWT is cleverly illustrated by a cut out and dress up paper doll (7). The fox begs the stork to help him up onto his tall stool (9; also see the front cover). OF features the sort of choice meat cuts poster we usually see for beef, now done for a frog (14-15)! Perhaps the best of all the illustrations presents the lamb from an angle taken through the wolf's sharp-toothed mouth (27). Do not miss the washing-instruction label on one of the sheep on 31. Other delightful illustrations include La Belette entrée dans un Grenier (38-39); Le Chat, la Belette et le Petit Lapin (40-41); and 2P (44-45). What a delight!

Identifier

en_US 9782210741713

en_US 6361 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81688

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Magnard Jeunesse

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 2001 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole