Fablio the Magician: The Tortoise and the Two Ducks, Adapted from La Fontaine's Fable

Title

en_US Fablio the Magician: The Tortoise and the Two Ducks, Adapted from La Fontaine's Fable

en_US Fablio series #5

en_US FabEng5

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Text by Georges de la Grandière

Creator

en_US De la Grandière, Georges

Contributor

en_US Ludo

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:04Z

en_US 2005-04

en_US 1969

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:04Z

Date Issued

en_US 1969

Abstract

en_US Here is an English version of original French work. I now have two of six books in the English series and three in the French. The little tortoise Tillycom is seven months old and quite a terror of a child. She decides to leave home, eager to go anywhere that is more exciting. In the city, she meets Ting and Ling, two ducks willing to fly her to America. In this version, their stick is tied to circles they put around their necks. She descends into the middle of a bull-fight in Andalusia, where she waves her red hat as she says good-bye to Ting and Ling. They rescue her and fly her to Egypt. Soon they are in America, where Tillycom falls into a rugby match and is mistaken for the ball. A kick takes her into the middle of an Indian pow-wow. She will be either tortured or eaten! Ting and Ling are again involved in her rescue. The moment of tragedy comes when they fly over some native tortoises on an island. These greet her as queen of tortoises flying by, and Tillycom answers by claiming respect proper to a queen. She shatters then on the stones below. The story moves where it can to rhyming poetry. The cartoon pictures are evidently movie stills.

Identifier

en_US 5388 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80930

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US R.L. Cavallere Ltd., London

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.D353 Tr 1969

en_US La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole