Creighton University

Here is a 32-page print-upon-demand book about 8½" square with French prose texts on the left hand page and full-page colored illustrations on the right.  The art seems to be a sort of claymation.  We walk from spring through summer and fall listening to dialogue between the cicada and the ant.  The ant regularly speaks of having played yesterday or being available to play tomorrow.  The grasshopper repeats many times over "I"ll start preparations tomorrow.  The finish does not include "Go dance!" but it does have a clear lesson from the ant to the cicada: "Il ne faut pas oublier de travailler!"  The art has nice touches, like making sunglasses the mark of summer, even on the bees.  Winter includes making a snowman.

Here is a 32-page print-upon-demand book about 8½" square with French prose texts on the left hand page and full-page colored illustrations on the right.  The art seems to be a sort of claymation, as in the partner publications on GA and TH.  A proud crow claims he should be king of the forest.  The animals laugh at him behind his back and know that he can be flattered.  They get him to do tasks for them, which he does in order to show how gifted he is.  Their manipulation of the proud crow climaxes when he has a piece of cheese in his beak.  As in La Fontaine's fable, the fox tells the crow after he has lost the cheese that the cheese is payment for learning the lesson that flatterers always want to profit from their victims.  The prose text is followed by La Fontaine's verse and Emile Chambry's translation of Aesop's version.  The art struggles sometimes, perhaps seeming to be staged or stodgy.  The booklet now carries a copyright of 2019 and includes "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" as the fourth member of the "Contes et Fables" series. 

Here is a 32-page print-upon-demand book about 8½" square with French prose texts on the left hand page and full-page colored illustrations on the right.  The art seems to be a sort of claymation, as in the partner publications on FC and GA.  This version's approach to the TH race, first revealed on the cover, is that the rabbit drives a racecar and the tortoise a tricycle.  The key to this version's approach is that the hare does just about all that he can to jeopardize his victory!  The other animals laugh at the ever-smiling tortoise.  This version assigns a reason for the tortoise's not finishing immediately but rather driving circles around the slow-pedaling tortoise: he wants to make his victory more "éclatante."  The rabbit's carrots are offered by his female admirers.  He fishes and takes a siesta.  In an unusual twist of the story, the rabbit wakes up, catches up to the tortoise, and doubles back toward the starting line -- to give the tortoise a lead!  Soon the hare runs out of gas!  Ever confident, he decides to push his car to the finish line.  After his victory, the tortoise tells his ashamed friend that he who advances regularly beats the one who thrusts himself headlong at the last moment.  The prose text is followed by La Fontaine's verse and Emile Chambry's translation of Aesop's version.  The art seems more successful here on the ground than it did placing the proud crow in mid-air in CP.  Scenes like the handshake between competitors come off well.  The booklet carries a copyright of 2019 and includes "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" as the fourth member of the "Contes et Fables" series.