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Title
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Le Petit Perret des Fables 3 d'après Jean de la Fontaine: Les Fables en Chiffres
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: French
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Pierre Perret
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Creator
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Perret, Pierre
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Contributor
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Various illustrators
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Date
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2025-05-20T17:10:13Z
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2023-12
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1992
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Date Available
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2025-05-20T17:10:13Z
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Date Issued
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1992
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Abstract
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I have long been fascinated by what Pierre Perret has done with the fables. After discovering his 1990 "Le Petit Perret," I found one of the "toys" produced after his characters, the heron on his fishing boat. I also found several publications from 1994. Then I found "Le Petit Perret 2" (1991), presenting ten of La Fontaine's fables in terms of their colors. Now, to my delight, I find "Le Petit Perret 3," with its emphasis on numbers. Each story gets six pages. The first pair of pages has some text with a large image and a smaller symbol. The second pair narrates the fable to its end, with a two-line moral. The third page is the unique element here: a retelling or commentary through numbers, from 1 to 10 respectively. The ingenuity here is as impressive as the artistry in constructing the images. Be ready for some creative developments of the fables. For example, in "Rat and Elephant" (22-27), is it a cat or a pair of elephant bookends that crush an impudent rat? Do not miss the engaging figures in "Discord" (52-57). FK (58-63) may be the most appealing visually: a mushroom and two spheres together make up a frog! Moral: "Be nice to your inferior teacher; you might get one that pulls your ears!" "The Owner and the Gardener" (64-69) involves tanks and planes destroying a lovely garden. This book is another delight!
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Identifier
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13517 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Fantome: Editions Jean-Claude Lattès
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Paris
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine