Fables d'Ésope
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Mogenet, Jean-Philippe
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2018
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This large-format book is almost identical with that published in 2011 by the same publisher. Changes include a change on the cover and title-page from "Milan Jeunesse" to "Milan." Fewer books are included in the series listed facing the title-page. The ISBN has changed, through the price has not. The typeface on the back cover changes for one small portion of text. Before I repeat comments I made then, I want to add two now. Animal characters here regularly wear hats. By my count, only three stories lack hats in their illustrations. A striking appearance of the hat comes in DS (35). Secondly, readers of La Fontaine will note here that Aesop's story is not about a grasshopper and ant but rather about a beetle and an ant (56-57). There is no reference to singing! As I wrote then, this tall book offers twenty-six Aesopic fables with a distinctive illustration for each. The art makes abundant use of big spaces to make its good points about the fables. In twenty-four of the cases here, that means a full page of illustration. In the other two, it means a double-page. Both of those double-page illustrations are strong: "The Stag at the Pool and the Lion" (46-47) and "Goat and Wolf" (60-61). Other strong illustrations include WC (17); "The Lion and the Hare" (25, with a detail repeated on the title-page); "The Tortoise and the Eagle" (27); DS (35); and FG (51). Martin has a style all its own. It shows some dependency, I would say, on Art Deco. I am happy to see the French pay some attention to Aesop!
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