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Title
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en_US
Fables de La Fontaine
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Description
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en_US
Language note: French
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Creator
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Contributor
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Boutavant, Marc
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Date
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2022-11-07T16:12:36Z
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2022-06
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en_US
2021
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Date Available
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2022-11-07T16:12:36Z
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Date Issued
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2021
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Abstract
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en_US
Here is yet another highly engaging book of La Fontaine's fables published recently. The back cover speaks insightfully of Boutavant's humor and impertinence. Illustrations come in a variety of sizes but regularly offering a portal of interpretation. The title-page features an insect in a rainstorm holding a leaf as an umbrella. Soon (5) we learn that that is the grasshopper on his way to the ant. The mice in TMCM lie luxuriously in a bowl at the city banquet but, across the page, look out fearfully from a hiding place (8 and 9). The wolf has the lamb securely tucked under his arm as he heads into the woods (19). DW finishes with a great image of the wolf running -- and smiling as he does so (25)! While various frogs demonstrate politically, one is lifted up by a beak (39). For TT, Boutavant selects the moment when the tortoise has slipped off of his ride (53). The milkmaid's pitcher now has become a flower pot (58)! The poor ass is carrying a piano up the mountain path (65). The book finishes in lovely fashion with the standard portrait of La Fontaine, only now as a fox! 7¾" x 10½". 71 pages.
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Identifier
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13027 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Gründ
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Paris
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine