Jean de La Fontaine: Fábulas
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La Fontaine, Jean de
Da Conceição Tavares, Maria
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2008
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This book is a Portuguese version of two French books already in the collection published by Hemma. Forty fables receive one-to-three fine illustrations each. Some are more childlike in their approach, like TH (5-7), which offers humanly clad figures. One of my favorites is "The Stag and the Pool" (16-17); this illustration spreads beautifully across two pages. In "The Lion Become Old" (36-37), the ass is climbing onto the lion's body to deliver his insulting blow. AD has a whimsical illustration in which the ant is riding like a horseback rider on the dove (41). In a curious surprise, the book's illustration of FS (51) dresses the animals who had no human dress in the same scene on the book's cover! Another favorite of mine shows the weasel and rabbit pleading all sorts of logic before the bespectacled cat (84). Little do they realize that they are both about to get eaten! Let me mention two last favorites. A two-page spread suggests the maliciousness of the frog in FM as he is about to plunge the rat into the water (110-11); the final page shows the scene from above as the hawk carries both away. 10¼" x 14". This book was worth translating and reprinting!
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Civilizacao Editora
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13562 (Access ID)