Deux Fables de La Fontaine: Petites Suites: La Cigale et la Fourmi, Le Rat de Ville et le Rat des Champs
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Costa, Bernadette
de La Fontaine, Jean
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1995
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Originally purchased from Gibert Jeune for 75 Francs. GA is told first in traditional form, using La Fontaine's text. Then follows a contemporary sequel, referred to, I believe, in the Suites of the subtitle. Rejected by the ant, the cicada goes to the cricket. The cricket, hearing of the ant's command that the cicada dance, suggests that the two open up a dance hall, with a little food as the price of admission. It works splendidly, so well that the neighbor ant is angry over all the noise and the fun going on! The visual style is colorful, cartoonlike in the style of The Far Side, and creative, as when a three-eyed, eight-armed insect plays the drums, cymbal, and tambourines on 14. As for TMCM, the sequel has the two rats each dressing up in the other's style for their encounter in the country--and looking ridiculous to each other as a result. Among the best illustrations is that of the rusticated city-rat getting off the train and meeting the courtly-clad country-rat. The city-rat is grossed out by the life of the country, including dunging cows and sausage-heavy dinners. A threshing-machine comes close to killing the two while they are out for a country walk. They return to their natural places, either convinced that his is the best place in the world. This is a lively and engaging book!
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