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Title
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Verte, La Grenouille
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Fables de La Fontaine a Colorier
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Var 6
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Description
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Language note: French
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Textes établis par Robert E. Llewellyn
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Creator
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Contributor
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Images de Jean Simard
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:53:36Z
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2007-02
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1943
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:53:36Z
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Date Issued
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1943
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Abstract
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Here is one of a set of six coloring books from during the Second World War which I have been lucky enough to find. The book is in large format (slightly larger than 8 x 11¼) and contains three fables on 32 pages. Each fable takes nine or ten pages to tell the story in one-page segments, with a few lines of prose complementing a large black-and-white cartoon. Each fable then adds one page for La Fontaine's original verse text. The first story is OF. Her sister Anne gets an old pump to blow Verte up after she has seen Bourru, the old steer of the farm. The artist does a good job of making Verte into a ball with small protruding hands and feet. That is our view just before she explodes. The second story is FM. This is a story of romance. The rat Théodule meets Flora, an American frog, on vacation at the oceanside, where she has just come out of the water to sunbathe. From the start, she is a bad frog and wants to bring him to the bottom of the water--and to eat him. Those Americans! This representation of Americans is more surprising in that these books were made in Canada. As Flora drags him down thrashing, the fish are astounded to see the two swim together. The bird of prey is flying an airplane with a rope and hook; he notices Théodule thrashing about and hooks him. The last picture is of the aristocratic bird eating both rat and frog. FK is the last story here. It comes up just short of La Fontaine's finish, as the complaining frog surprisingly repeats his earlier complaint about a do-nothing king and receives no answer. It seems as though two creatures ate their way into the pages of this pamphlet.
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Identifier
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6236 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Les Éditions Variétés
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Montréal
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L595 Ver 1943
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Pamphlet