Le Corbeau et le Renard... et le Raton Laveur!
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Brisou-Pellen, Évelyne
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2021
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The back cover tells La Fontaine not to panic. His texts are intact, perfect. "Mais, en plus, on s'est amusées à les reprendre à notre façon, à les illustrer selon notre fantaisie." What we have here then is a revisiting of the fables in several ways, but, as far as I can tell, respecting La Fontaine's fable. They involve contemporary everyday situations. And they sometimes involve an additional raccoon. So in GA, the ant relents for this winter, and the grasshopper promises that the first song will be for the ant. "The Rabbit's Ears" has a different turn. A goat happens to injure a lion with his horns, and the lion banishes all horned creatures. A rabbit happens to see his shadow and wonders if the lion will count his ears as horns. A grasshopper spends a long time in vain trying to convince the rabbit that he has ears, not horns. After the rabbit leaves, the grasshopper gets to thinking about his own antennae -- and soon enough is running to catch up to the pack of fleeing animals. In the end, the lion is king of nobody. FC goes as usual until the fox admonishes the crow -- and so lets the cheese fall to the waiting raccoon. So it goes in this beguiling book. 157 pages. 5½" x 7½". Full-page cartoon illustrations.
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13545 (Access ID)