Fables: Quand la Sagesse Vint aux Ânes
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Ruaud, Pierre
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2015
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There are thirteen fables on 31 pages in this tall (8½" x 12¾") book, as the beginning T of C shows. This book has an unusual feature: colored-background half-pages give the rhyming verse of each fable. Facing each text then is its multi-colored, dramatic full-page illustration. Thus the first fable, "Le Chien et le Chat," has the head of a donkey presented between cat and dog, each in a balancing scale suspended from the ears of the donkey. The donkey holds a judge's gavel in his mouth. The wise donkey judges that each of these bickering competitors must name four qualities of the other at the next sunrise. They do, and he wisely judges that they complement each other, since one wards off thieves and the other mice. Once one recognizes the qualities of our rivals, we can no longer detest them. The second fable is "Le Corbeau et le Renard qui Connaissait la Fable." This fox has to figure out new ways to fool crows! The title fable (19) has two donkeys tied to each other at a rest period learning to eat together out of first one and then the other's feed – instead of straining against each other and getting nothing. Thus wisdom comes to these two asses, though it often does not come to humans! Later (20) two cocks compete by waking the farmer up earlier and earlier. He ends their competition by serving them a great meal.
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Éditions amaterra
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