Favourite Fables of La Fontaine
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Krejčová, Zdeňka
La Fontaine, Jean de
Issue Date
1995
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Book, Whole
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Large-format, colorful book containing forty-six fables. The art is big, colorful, and dramatic. BF (#1) has the smallest bird I have ever seen trying to wear these peacock feathers! OF (#3) starts with a great image of a horned frog; the ox is his only interlocuter, and there is no other frog around. TMCM (#5) does show a Turkish rug, but the setting seems to be more the country meal than the city meal, and there is no country meal in La Fontaine! Great chagrined lion (#12), overcome by the gnat. Sometimes the images of two fables are merged on one two-page spread, e.g. 14-15 (GA and FC) and 20-21 (WC and FG). The storytelling is good in WC: the wolf was not even able to cry for help and thus made no promise of a reward. Notice the ending of this version of FG: I suppose this verdict made him feel better than complaining about not being able to reach the grapes. Appropriately, a gravedigger steals the miser's buried gold (#24). In 2P (#25) the iron pot has a good moustache. The illustration for The Mountain that Gave Birth (#27) is strange: a man in the foreground raises a golden egg in his hand, while the mountain in the background looks sad. In TB (#28), the bear says the man is a corpse. I'm sure. It smells horrible. In The Torrent and the River (#40), a hat floating on the calm surface tells the whole story. In TT (#42), the crowd was admiring the tortoise when she felt the need to answer back. Great job for an inexpensive book! T of C at the front, listing stories by number, not page. The texts are centered prose. Copyright 1993 by Aventinum Nakladdatelstvi: apparently the Slovak version.
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Aventinum Pub. House
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