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Title
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Le Lièvre et la Tortue
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Contes & Fables
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C&F3
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Description
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Language note: French
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Valentine and Delphine Stephen
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Creator
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Stephen, Valentine
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Contributor
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Stephen, Valentine
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Date
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2022-11-07T16:12:31Z
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2022-05
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2019
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Date Available
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2022-11-07T16:12:31Z
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Date Issued
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2019
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Abstract
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Here is a 32-page print-upon-demand book about 8½" square with French prose texts on the left hand page and full-page colored illustrations on the right. The art seems to be a sort of claymation, as in the partner publications on FC and GA. This version's approach to the TH race, first revealed on the cover, is that the rabbit drives a racecar and the tortoise a tricycle. The key to this version's approach is that the hare does just about all that he can to jeopardize his victory! The other animals laugh at the ever-smiling tortoise. This version assigns a reason for the tortoise's not finishing immediately but rather driving circles around the slow-pedaling tortoise: he wants to make his victory more "éclatante." The rabbit's carrots are offered by his female admirers. He fishes and takes a siesta. In an unusual twist of the story, the rabbit wakes up, catches up to the tortoise, and doubles back toward the starting line -- to give the tortoise a lead! Soon the hare runs out of gas! Ever confident, he decides to push his car to the finish line. After his victory, the tortoise tells his ashamed friend that he who advances regularly beats the one who thrusts himself headlong at the last moment. The prose text is followed by La Fontaine's verse and Emile Chambry's translation of Aesop's version. The art seems more successful here on the ground than it did placing the proud crow in mid-air in CP. Scenes like the handshake between competitors come off well. The booklet carries a copyright of 2019 and includes "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" as the fourth member of the "Contes et Fables" series.
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Identifier
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12991 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Contes & Fables: Create Space
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Subject
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One story: TH