Fablio le Magicien présente La grenouille qui veut se fair aussi grosse que le boeuf

Abstract

Crak the Frog and John le Boeuf help Fablio to tell the story in this large-formatted, well used book for children. The cartoon pictures are evidently movie stills. Crak, an Olympic champion, plays in all sorts of ways to his admiring fans, including his fiancée. With his valet, he watches a bullfight between John and Bull on TV. Crak wants to take on the new champion John. He trains, but is miserably bested by John. He finally hires a gas truck to help blow him up, and of course he explodes. As his assistants then say, Sans sa jalousie et son orgueil, CRAK n'aurait pas craqué. La Fontaine's text is interspersed with this modern cartoon version, not always successfully. The very last still ends with a text that says Vous pouvez regarder la prochaine fable à la Tele!