Raconte-moi…Jean de La Fontaine: Le Lièvre et la Tortue
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Séassau, Marc
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2011
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This little book of 18 pages is remarkable for its humanization of the animal characters. The tortoise is like a little hunchback housed in a ball! A giraffe wears four high-top roller-skates under a kind of mini-skirt with leggings. Brun pays attention to the shoes each of her characters would wear, from the hare's sneakers to the tortoise's slippers. Séassau has prepared a prose version of the story that fits well with the illustrations. Once the race is announced, specific animals busy themselves with the preparations. True to La Fontaine, Séassau has the tortoise linger at the starting point with a flower-stem in his mouth. I appreciate Séassau's short summary: "To show his contempt, he began a little siesta." The tortoise makes the fable's last comment as she notices the frustrated hare: "And what if you had to carry your house?!" A last page presents La Fontaine's fable on a single page. Well done!
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