Item
Fablio the Magician: The Tortoise and the Two Ducks, Adapted from La Fontaine's Fable
- Title
- en_US Fablio the Magician: The Tortoise and the Two Ducks, Adapted from La Fontaine's Fable
- en_US Fablio series #5
- en_US FabEng5
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Text by Georges de la Grandière
- Creator
- en_US De la Grandière, Georges See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Ludo
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:38:04Z
- en_US 2005-04
- en_US 1969
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:38:04Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1969
- Abstract
- en_US Here is an English version of original French work. I now have two of six books in the English series and three in the French. The little tortoise Tillycom is seven months old and quite a terror of a child. She decides to leave home, eager to go anywhere that is more exciting. In the city, she meets Ting and Ling, two ducks willing to fly her to America. In this version, their stick is tied to circles they put around their necks. She descends into the middle of a bull-fight in Andalusia, where she waves her red hat as she says good-bye to Ting and Ling. They rescue her and fly her to Egypt. Soon they are in America, where Tillycom falls into a rugby match and is mistaken for the ball. A kick takes her into the middle of an Indian pow-wow. She will be either tortured or eaten! Ting and Ling are again involved in her rescue. The moment of tragedy comes when they fly over some native tortoises on an island. These greet her as queen of tortoises flying by, and Tillycom answers by claiming respect proper to a queen. She shatters then on the stones below. The story moves where it can to rhyming poetry. The cartoon pictures are evidently movie stills.
- Identifier
- en_US 5388 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US R.L. Cavallere Ltd., London
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.D353 Tr 1969 See all items with this value
- en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books