Item
Les Fables de La Fontaine
- Title
- en_US Les Fables 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 Loulendo, Sarah
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:17Z
- 2024-07
- en_US 2020
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:17Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2020
- Abstract
- en_US Here is an oversized book for children with very pleasant art. There are 29 fables on 62 pages. Sometimes a page for the fable text faces a page of illustration. Sometimes a partial-page illustration is on the same page as its text. The illustrations are remarkable for their color and simple forms. Enjoy OF on 9: the two characters are seated at a café. "The Fox and the Goat" has as clear an illustration as I have seen as to how the goat made himself into a ladder (13). All the animals are arranged around the two-page spread for "The Animals Sick in the Plague." The ass stands in the middle (16-17). The young lamb at the river has a backpack and a bottle of milk (19). The artist catches the mice just as the country mouse is becoming aware of an intruding force (33). FK's illustration spreads across the bottom of its two-page spread. Jupiter looks down. On the left, frogs are crying out around a crowned log planted in the shore. On the right, the crane has caught a mouse by his bathing-suit top while others scamper for cover (38-39). The facial expressions are very good on DW (46-47). This is one of those books that encourage me that artists take the fables seriously and invest in their illustrations! 8¾" x 13½".
- Identifier
- en_US 13551 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Magnard Jeunesse
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books