30 Fables Choisies de Jean de la Fontaine
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Now here is a curiosity. Twenty-two years ago I found a book in Casablanca by Éditions Morena. This summer, at the totally unassuming Locus Solus used bookshop in Marseilles, I found a lively book I was unsure about. For €5, it was worth the chance that we did not already have it. It turns out to be internally identical with that book from 22 years ago. The back cover has only reversed the use of green and orange. The front cover still has the same central characters, frog and stork, but there are fewer characters around in this later red-orange printing. I cannot even find a way to discover for sure which book is older! I will repeat comments I made then. The book's approach to its thirty fables is to put them on parchment scripts in the midst of bright, slick, fully colored pages that remind one of Disney. Each new line of verse begins with a red letter. Though these pictures will appeal more to the young than to adults, there is much to enjoy. I enjoy the way "Doctor" Wolf is propelled through the picture by the savvy horse (26-27). Notice the monkey ready to use his slingshot on 32. I like very much the opening two-page picture for BC (72-73): While Rodilard is watching the moon with his arm around his cat-sweetheart, the rats meet in a flimsy treehouse. The fish underwater in the foreground of "Le Héron" are beautiful bathing beauties in bikinis blowing him kisses (90-91)! The sick stag is surrounded by doctors, nurses, fire trucks, and ambulances (108-9)! There is an AI at the back.
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