These elegant humorous fables will keep children entertained while teaching them important lessons. For this collection, award-winning translator Ranjit Bolt has chosen the best of La Fontaine's fables, presenting each entry in a lyrical, witty and lighthearted verse. Equally captivating is the art of illustrator Giselle Potter, who has interpreted each story with the whimsical charm that has won her many admirers.
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Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. A set of postage stamps celebrating La Fontaine and the Fables was issued by France in 1995. A film of his life was released in France in April 2007 (Jean de La Fontaine - le défi starring Laurent Deutsch).
