Fables: Jean de La Fontaine
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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2020
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"Un livre pour les vacances." This book was given to French CM2 elementary school pupils, ages 8-9, as their summer reading. 25 fables get two to four pages for text and illustrations. The latter are often enough in panels, four to a page, showing the progress of a story. The visual presentations show humor and some healthy exaggeration, as when the bone taken from the wolf's throat has a long ribbon of slime (23). The wolf's snarl in WL is palpable (17). The two pots bounce along arm in arm (25). A bloody splat is all that is left of the frog in OF (27). This illustrating style combines fun and insight! Guibert has helped me to notice that, in La Fontaine's telling, the goat and fox both enter the well together to quench their thirst (40-41). The fox's laugh as he looks back down into the well may be the most effective of Guibert's two-page illustrations (42-43). FS has six pages, including two excellent presentations of the contrasting meals (58-63). There is a T of C at the end. 6¼" x 9¾".
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Réseau Canopé: IPE Image Press Édition
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13568 (Access ID)