Les fables d'Ésope

Title

en_US Les fables d'Ésope

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Racontée par Vivian French. Illustrée par Korky Paul

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Paul, Korky

Date

2018-07-05T18:38:13Z

en_US 2018-04

en_US 1997

Date Available

2018-07-05T18:38:13Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US French version of "Aesop's Funky Fables" from Viking Penguin in 1998 and from Hamish Hamilton in 1997, with the same page count, cover design, and endpapers. Colored illustrations and black-and-white alternate in presenting ten fables in this slick, large-format hip book. I take it that the French texts are, like their English source, rap songs. BW involves three simulated wolf attacks. The boy says that there was a wolf (1) that he drove away, (2) that must have slipped away, and (3) that he drove away. He gets diminishing accolades and attention. The wolf devours all the sheep while the boy sits perched afraid in a tree; later he is sent by the other shepherds to do menial work in town. In FS, Mr. Fox invites Mrs. Stork in order to have someone admire his great cooking. He comes up with the "wide flat dish" idea at the last minute fearing that she might eat too long and too well. Mrs. Stork invites him for that evening. Note her toothy grin (38) as she welcomes him to a meal served in twelve vases! The jackdaw in clay-gray feathers among the pigeons is a great visual creation (50). "The Bat, the Bramble and the Cormorant" (56) is infrequently presented, I believe. It handles the etiology well and includes a great colored image of the three shipwrecked on the beach (62). The wolf promises Madame Crane (who had been masculine in English) not silver, gold, and a wife, but all the gold she might want! And he will take care of her when she is old. New to me is "The Traveller and the Bear" (74): the traveller looks up and falls down. The illustrations are indeed funky, and I like them!

Identifier

en_US 11314 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/118609

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Milan

en_US Toulouse, France

Subject

en_US Ovr. PZ24.2.A38Fabl 1997

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned