Album No 2: Éditions I.P.C. des fables de La Fontaine vues par H. Fox
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1950
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Each of eight fables gets either a page or a two-page spread in this fragile ephemeral album made for children. Its back cover advertises the first two volumes in the series, as the fourth volume advertised four. The T of C for this volume occurs on its last page, with a hunter fox relaxing and smelling a flower. All eight fables here include the fox, and he usually drives a car. The first page offers a cartoon of a complex rural scene. I can make out portrayals of a fox and goat in a well, and of a hunting fox walking away from a singing crow. Again, I had to read the fables as presented here to recognize further fables presented on this title-page. One of them, UP, may tend to confuse the reader in conjunction with FC. The front cover of this monochrome dark blue booklet offers a blue and green version of FC with the fox driving a car. For each fable, one sees La Fontaine's text and a series of cartoon panels with one or two simple prose statements. The fox and goat go into the well together. I had not realized that this is La Fontaine's version. In FG, the fox is leaping from the roof of his convertible car. Again, this version reminded me that in La Fontaine's version of "The Fox and the Bust," there is a less critical ass also involved. "The Fox, the Wolf, and the Horse" is perhaps less known. The fox leads the wolf to the new neighbor, the horse, and asks his name. The wise horse says that it is inscribed on his hoof. The rest you can guess from here. Fox and his readers had fun here! 10½" x 8".
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