La rana que quería ser Buey
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Erbiti, Alejandra
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2007
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"Basada en la fábula de La Fontaine." This set of twelve-page pamphlets has a huge format of almost 11" x almost 15". There are ten pamphlets in the series. I have found five so far. This member differs from others in its date of 2007 as well as its printer, adaptor, and artist. This version of OF is unusual, I believe, in that the frog usually has no interest in being an ox; she just thinks that she must be as big as an ox. The story itself is also about size; the title seems therefore inaccurate. The story itself adds two new phases as the frog first demonstrates to a friendly rat that she can make herself as big as he is. Next she encounters a dapper rabbit and soon enough is blowing herself up, so she believes, to his size. She exclaims after he leaves "Soy una rana increíblemente grande!" The final two-page illustration is particularly well done. The drinking bull snorts water out his nose at the inflated frog. A bird perched on the bull's horn gestures that the frog is crazy. The frog's belly is terribly distended. The final page's text has the frog apparently exploding, but the last illustration is a version of the cover's image. She is a balloon with two eyeballs and spindly extremities. The two-page colorful picture spreads seem computer generated.
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Latin Books International: Cultural Librera Americana
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10630 (Access ID)