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Title
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Tête à Queue d'après une fable de La Fontaine
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: French
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Bénédicte Guettier
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Creator
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Guettier, Bénédicte
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Contributor
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Guettier, Bénédicte
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:54:10Z
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2008-05
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1993
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:54:10Z
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Date Issued
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1993
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Abstract
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There is some good reflective fun going on here, starting from the naming -- as Zeno -- of La Fontaine's nameless snake in the seventh fable of Book 7. Zeno tells himself Let's go for a digestive walk after a first picture that shows him swallowing a rabbit. The tail says Stop and wants to take the lead. This book's art is up to the task of having serious fun with the possibilities of a snake's head and tail talking to each other. The cover picture has the snake tied up in a knot. The tail's blind leading has the same repeated bad results as in La Fontaine. When the tail bumps into a fox, it responds I'll break your head. The head responds. No, just kill my tail. Whereas La Fontaine's beast, led by the tail, finally plunges into the Styx, this tail plunges the snake into a river and there gets sense. The key line in this version is 'Je crois que j'ai fait une bêtise', avoue enfin la queue toute piteuse, tandis que les poissons se moquent d'elle.The story's last phrase,repeated on the back cover, is Une histoire qu n'est pas sans queue ni tête. This is a story that is not without head or tail, beginning or end. Good stuff! I had seen this book advertised and looked hard for it in France while I was there. Back home, I finally gave up the search and ordered it from Amazon in France.
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Identifier
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23211035531
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6362 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Ecole des losirs
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Paris
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Subject
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PZ24.2.G87 Te 1993
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La Fontaine; one fable
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole