"As the back of this assemblage well proclaims, we find here first a book to read; secondly, twenty scripts of parts to play; and thirdly eight masks to wear in those roles. All three -- but particularly the first and ...

This book brings several surprises. First, I had just catalogued, perhaps a week ago, a second half of an 1813 La Fontaine published by Belin, and had wished for a chance to find the first half. I am making my way through ...

Vikar Bela translated La Fontaine into Hungarian in 1929. The highly dramatic black-and-white illustrations are strong and frequent. I appreciate the illustration on 23 for "The Serpent with Many Tails and the Serpent ...

This is a quite straightforward book of Hungarian verse renditions of some 38 fables on 95 pages. The only illustration in the book is the colored illustration of FC on the front cover. There is a curious panel on both ...

This is a very scarce limited edition I had been watching at Rooke Books for some time. When they offered a 40% off sale, I made the decision to go for it. Beautifully illustrated by Geoffrey Trenaman with five colour ...

"Here is a second copy of this book. "1 Livre + 1 CD Audio." A high-class CD comes inside the front-cover of this large-format book, which has a see-through musical note cut through its thick cover. The music is by ...

"This booklet of some 92 pages gives first a history of the La Fontaine Museum in Château-Thierry, secondly of the house in which Jean de La Fontaine was born and raised, and thirdly of La Fontaine's place overall in the ...

Here is an extra copy of this large book. There are about forty fables, generally in two-page spreads, in this large children's book. The images look suspiciously familiar. There seems to be a first page missing; that ...

"A listing on the web helped with information on this unusual little paperback volume of 88 pages: "Fables de La Fontaine dans la langue populaire du quartier de Marolles (Bruxelles). Coco Lulu est le pseudonyme de Victor ...

"The specialty of this broken little volume is the full-page reproduction of 76 of Jean-Baptist Oudry's illustrations. The book has a surprising organization. It is divided into thirds, with a list of illustrations and ...