Item
Fables de La Fontaine
- Title
- en_US Fables de La Fontaine
- Description
- 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 Boutavant, Marc
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:12:36Z
- 2022-06
- en_US 2021
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:12:36Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2021
- Abstract
- en_US Here is yet another highly engaging book of La Fontaine's fables published recently. The back cover speaks insightfully of Boutavant's humor and impertinence. Illustrations come in a variety of sizes but regularly offering 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.
- Identifier
- en_US 13027 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Gründ
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books