1987 Modern Fables. 44 minutes on one side. Read and prepared by Bernard Jackson and Susie Quintenella. 309-7. The Peoples Publishing Group, Inc. Unknown source.
There are regular references to pages to be read while one listens to the tape. I have tried a couple of the stories, and I find them good. They deal with humans--specifically children--rather than animals. They remain short enough to be good fables. In the first story on Side A, "The Little Guy," little Jimmy is only a football fan. Jimmy does a Heimlich maneuver on the choking Alfred, the football player, and so saves him. He thus repays a favor. "Size doesn't always count." "Such Good Friends" at the start of Side B is about a schoolboy thief Lee and his friend Eric. Of course only the latter is caught. "You will be judged by the friends you keep." The introduction makes the point that the morals used here are those Aesop used.
A pitcher 7½" high with the same brown ceramic and the same unpainted floral pattern. The image here under the "Fables de La Fontaine" signature is of MM, the same MM image as the handleless bowl in the Ivy Pattern series. On the other side of the pitcher is a panel offering four lines from late in the fable. $28 from fabulousfinds68_2 on eBay, Feb., '17.
I presume that this is especially meant as a milk pitcher, but the fable does not augur well for the fate of this pitcher. It is after all differently shaped from the pitcher in the image!
A handleless bowl 6" across featuring MM with four verses asking who of us does not build castles in Spain. Perrette holds her head in horror as she looks down at the dropped pitcher and the spilled milk.
1911 La Laitiere et le Pot au Lait: Fable de La Fontaine. Colored series of 5 portrait postcards photographed by Sazerac and published by Croissant. 3 cards for €10 from Cpaphil, Saint-Fargeau, France, August, '13. Two additional cards in the series (#4 and #5) from Bertrand Cocq, along with duplicates of #1 and #3, for $6 each, Sept., '20. Extras of Cards #2 and #3 for €1.30 each from for collecman through Ebay, Jan., '23.
The unusual thing about this set is the coloration of the photographs. The picturing of the dreaming of the milkmaid in the upper left corner of the card seems so similar to what I have seen in other postcard series of MM. Thils sries of five cards completes the narrative of this fable. Might there be a sixth presenting La Fontaine's following comment on the normal human habit of wishful daydreaming?
1975? Mistigri: Fables de La Fontaine. Deisgned by Monique Berthoumeyrou. Made in France.
Card game with 15 pairs corresponding to 15 well known fables of La Fontaine. The fable characters and their artistic illustrations are well matched. "Mistigri" is a generic name for card games of this sort; one of many other names is apparently "pouilleux." It also seems to be a name for a cat popular in French pop culture.
