Fables d' Aujourd'hui
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Pommaux, Yvan
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2019
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Here are ten original four-page rhyming verse fables told and illustrated with verve. When the frogette Ad├®lie meets frog Jules, her self-hatred vanishes and her water lily becomes a paradise (9). A particularly engaging story describes the jealousy of a rat concerning his female mouse friend (26-29). Of course, when the cat sleeps, the mice dance! She loves to dance, and so do her fellow mice. He is upset and irritated. He wants the party to stop, and so he wakes up the cat. What happens? He experiences "entre quatre griffes un sort cruel, definitif." Love and jealousy do not do well together. The mouse criedÔÇĞand then "turned the page." We see her with her new friend at the end of this sad tale. Another engaging and engagingly illustrated story has Sarah the mouse torn between two rat lovers, Pierre and Jean (38-41). She wishes their best qualities were gathered into one Jean-Pierre! Sadly, she lets both go, and a passing crow counsels that life would be boring if we could order perfect friends. The accompanying illustration shows a machine stamping out identical suitors with bouquets in their hands. The picture of Sarah on her couch is lovely (38)! This book is fun!
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l'├®cole des loisirs
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12459 (Access ID)