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The Complete Fables of La Fontaine
(University of Illinois Press, 2007)
Here is my work copy of this fine book. After his work on three partial editions of fables of La Fontaine, Shapiro has arrived at a complete fables. The book gives credit to the three exclusively La Fontaine editions ...
Jean de la Fontaine: Selected Fables
(Dover Publications, 2000)
Here is an inexpensive ($1.50) verse version of some seventy of La Fontaine's most famous fables. This surprise find will be worth considering the next time I teach fables. My congratulations to Dover for making it so ...
The Complete Fables of La Fontaine: A New Translation in Verse
(Arcade PublishingDistributed by Hachette Book Group, 2008)
It is unusual to find a complete La Fontaine. The list in English includes, I believe, only Thomson, Wright, Thornbury, Moore, Spector, and Schapiro. This translation is curious because it took the author some fifty years ...
Les Fables de la Fontaine mises en scène par Dedieu: Le Corbeau et le Renard et Autres Fables
(Seuil, 2009)
Here is my sixth Dedieu pop-up book, the third French. This is again exquisite work. The six fables presented here are FC; GA; OF; WC; LM, and TMCM. The hint of the outside world in TMCM is good, as is the movable ...
Fables Choisies mises en vers par M. de La Fontaine
(Éditions Équinoxe, 2000)
I have seldom been charmed as much by a book as I am charmed by this edition. Of course, it was a pleasure to find it together at one of the bouquinistes on the Seine. Most friends have given up on finding a new fable ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Les Fables en BD
(Editions Petit à Petit, 2006)
Here is a hardbound comic book about 6 x 8½ which I sought while in Paris and all around Germany last summer. No one knew what I was talking about except one book dealer in Berlin, and he could not promise delivery within ...
Les Fables de la Fontaine mises en scène par Dedieu: Le Lièvre et la Tortue et Autres Fables
(Seuil, 2009)
Here is one of those little surprises for a book collector. In 2008 Seuil published this book, apparently without a title-page. The cover was the closest thing to a title-page, and the cover read: Livre II: Les Fables ...
The Hare and the Tortoise and other Fables of La Fontaine
(Barefoot Books, 2006)
The flyleaf speaks of Ranjit Bolt as an award-winning translator. Nineteen fables, with an introduction and an afterword. The illustration style is primitive. Bolt's introduction closes with this good paragraph: When ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Magnard Jeunesse, 2001)
This is my third copy of this book, but this copy has two differences from the other two. They were printed in Barcelona and have a publication date of 2003. Though I ordered another copy by mistake, I am happy to have ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Fables
(Milan: Jeunesse, 2007)
Copyright 2000 Editions Milan. But the depot legal at the bottom of the page facing the title-page lists 2007. This is a large-format children's book with lively colored illustrations. It is ironic: I have been trying ...