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The Fables of La Fontaine

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What a pleasant book. If you are interested to own a book of La Fontaine's Fables with a little extra, don't hesitate and go buy this book! The book itself is beautiful: it comes in a box and the colours are vivid (excellent quality of printing). You will be surprised at every page: the fables are all written in various styles (for example, the lines will be "bouncing" if the fable is about a rabbit, etc.). The paintings are all very colorful and will make you smile for sure. The only thing that is quite sad is that only 43 of the 100 lithographs illustrating the Fables have apparently been found and printed in that book. But despite that comment, it is worth the buy just the same. A beautiful and original gift for anyone who loves animals, litterature and art!

The paintings are, of course, great. BUT the interpretive translations are very poor. The poetry doesn't flow and is difficult to follow for me, a well-educated adult, let alone a child! I bought this to share the wonder of the fables with my children using highest quality art, but it didn't work out well at all.

If you are buying just for the paintings, it's great. If you are buying it to read, I recommend to keep looking.

This book is wonderful for children and adults. The author has rewritten the famous fables as poems and laid out the words across the pages so that even the letters and colors tell the story. Add to that the Chagall illustrations, which first drew me to the book, and the result is magical.