1930? Old Fables in New Rhymes. Marian B. Cochrane and Florence A. Camp. No. 8475. Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Company. Unknown source.
This is a curious game. Fifteen (of sixteen?) heavy cardboard cards are still here, each representing a verse version of a childhood story. The first and third line of each quatrain is blank. The child needs to substitute a word that makes sense and rhymes with its partner two lines away. Two of the cards (#4 and #8 in the hand-numbering here) present FC and TH. Someone (a teacher perhaps?) has filled out a smaller card for each of the numbered stories: the card contains correct words for filling the blanks. One of those words, according to the scribe, is “unsterstand.” Actually the verse version of FC here is quite good. I may use it soon in some oral presentation!
2012 Offenbach: Un mari à la porte; Les fables de la Fontaine. Musical CD. Anaïk Morel. Gabrielle Philiponet, Stephane Malbec-Garcia, and Marc Canturri. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Unknown source.
This offering of six fables of La Fontaine has as its chief feature that it uses different singers for each fable. The fable accompaniment seems limited to piano. There seems to be some difficulties with the transcription of the French and its translation into English. I enjoyed FC, GA, and MM.
