Fables de La Fontaine sur des airs de jazz
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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2009
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In 2006, Flammarion: Père Castor published Le loup et l'agneau et 3 autres fables de La Fontaine, using illustrations by Sébastien Pelon. Here is a new large-format book using new illustrations by Pelon for some twenty-eight La Fontaine fables. One special feature of this publication is that it offers, by means of an audio CD, jazz music for twelve of the fables. The titles for the music are clever, e.g., Le blues de la Cigale, La fugue du Renard, and La marche de la Tortue. Each of the fables gets a two-page spread. I find the illustrations, integrated around the text, to be the second distinctive feature of this publication. The pictures are deceptively simple and engaging. I write deceptively because they show unusual insight and imagination. The rabbit relaxes in a hammock with his tennis shoes swung over the branch from which he swings (10). TT's illustration has four different phases in one picture, from the turtle's clutch of the stick in mid-air to a cat's cautious search to see if there is life in this shell on the ground (21). The flight of the busybody fly around the coach and its horses is suggested by a line through and around the whole group (24-25). Raminagrobis wears a priestly collar (27). The milkmaid's spilling milk turns into the future possessions she was dreaming of (33). The caught stag's bent posture shows how he is being restrained as the off-scene dogs close in on him (37). TB features two wonderfully expressive human faces (42-3). The Fox and the Goat illustration includes only the the bottom of the fox's tail, as the goat looks up to it, after he has helped the fox out of the well (45). A last pair of pages presents the musical score for La marche de la Tortue.
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Flammarion: Père Castor
Père Caster Flammarion
Père Caster Flammarion
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7544 (Access ID)