Il Était une Fois: Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Il Était une Fois: Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

Sylvie Martin

Creator

en_US Martin, Sylvie See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lacasse, Anouk

Date

2020-01-23T17:39:16Z

2019-03

en_US 2015

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:39:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 2015

Abstract

en_US This large format book (9" x 13") with five fables is a selection and development of "Les Fables de La Fontaine" by the same author, artist, and publisher in 2013. That book had twenty fables. Our five here are not only selected from there. The art is sometimes repeated and sometimes modified, and sometimes a selection is made or a large image there is broken up into two. Also, the original La Fontaine text is no longer presented. There is only the prose narrative accompanying the images. Presented here are GA, OF, FC, TH, and TMCM, each for eight pages. The frog in OF is a diminutive slender female who wants to put on weight. The ox recommends the "balloon" method to fill out, and she falls in love with the method! The artist gives us a good sense of La Fontaine's perception of the beginning of the TH race: the hare rests with a cocktail in a lawn chair while the race starts and the tortoise moves off. The approach of this art is especially appropriate, I believe, for TMCM, which is well presented. All three full-page illustrations in this fable capture the two mice in revealing action. Among the many big, inexpensive fable books that appear in France year after year, this is a favorite. T of C at the beginning.

Identifier

en_US 11839 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125545

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Les Éditions Coup d'oeil

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value