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2025 Aesop's Fables: A Reading and Coloring Activity Book for Kids. Tarek Benbaba. Paperbound. Monee, IL: Independently published. $11.99 from Amazon, August, ‘25.
This is a good coloring book for the youngest of colorers. WSC; BC; and AD. I am happy to see AD included because it is one of the rare fables about helping others. WSC is surprising in several regards. One is that the wolf converses with sheep and they notice no difference. Another is that he eats one sheep before the shepherd notices him. The best illustration is the colored one on the front cover. 8" x 10". 31 pages.
2025 Les Fables de La Fontaine. Carolina Zanotti; translated by Cécile Breffort. Illustrations by Silvia Brunetti. Hardbound. Vercelli: NuiNui Jeunesse. €19.90 from Gibert Joseph, Paris, June, ‘ 25.
This is a re-presentation in larger format (10” x 10”) of a 7.25" x 7.25” book Nuinui did in 2022. This book is not only larger in format; it also adds two fables not containing pop-up pages: “The Sick Lion and the Fox” and UP. Claims on the two books can be confusing because that edition claimed “9 Pop-Up Magiques,” referring to pop-up pages. This edition proclaims “Six Fables en Pop-Up!” They are referring here, I believe, to fables containing pop-ups. Six fables contain nine pop-up pages. As I wrote there, my prizes go to the last two fables: to "La Belette entrée dans un grenier" for the hole in the barn allowing us to see inside and to OF for the frog that explodes out as one opens the page. Other stories include GA; FG; TH; and "Le Loup devenu Berger." Good imagination and great construction! There is a curious discrepancy in the bibliographical information. The earlier book was illustrated by Elisa Bellotti, while this is illustrated by Silvia Brunetti. The illustrations are the same!