Les Fables de la Fontaine, Livres I-IV

Abstract

Here is the latest in print-on-demand books. This paperback features GA on its cover. Along the way there are full-page computer graphics, unfortunately only in black-and-white. Among the best of them is "The Lion in Love" on 168: this lion is clawless and almost toothless! Unfortunately, the illustration for a fable often comes only after one has turned the page on the text of the fable. There are helpful vocabulary notes at the page bottom. The back cover has a statement all too true for French schools, but not for American: "Ces fables sont un incontournable de l'école." I had to look up "incontournable." It means "unavoidable!" Too true! In French schools, you cannot avoid La Fontaine's fables! 218 pages.