La Fontaine: Fables (Cover: "la Cigale et la Fourmi")
Author
Imagées par Romain Simon
Date
1954. Librairie de Hachette. Paris
Set:
AlbR6.
Category
La Fontaine.
Language note: French.
Call No:
PZ24.2.L3Fab 1954e (Carlson Fable Collection, BIC bldg)
.
1954
La Fontaine
Language note: French
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Five fables are announced on the title-page of this 6.5"x 8" kids' book: OF; FS; GA; LM; and "The Heron." They occur in this order: GA; FS; OF; "The Heron"; and LM. The La Fontaine text is unchanged. I have seen Simon's GA illustrations before. I find the facial expressions of the ant wonderfully expressive (6-7). Similarly, the facial expressions of the fox in FS are excellent, from his sniffing the pot he has uncovered in the stork's kitchen to his looking down the long neck of the steaming serving vessel to leaving chagrined. The ox is shocked by the frog's explosion. The back cover illustrates WC, a fable not presented in this booklet.