No less a poet than the great<br> <br> Seamus Heaney said of Norman Shapiro's <i>Fifty Fables of La Fontaine,</i><br> <br> "It is a pleasure to open a book as sure and sly as these translations.<br> <br> . . . He gets the tune right and the tone right, and manages to echo both<br> <br> the folk wisdom and the poker-faced formality of the originals."<br> <br> As surely as La Fontaine followed<br> <br> Aesop, Shapiro has now made fabulous fifty <i>more</i> fables of the wonderful<br> <br> La Fontaine--among them "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The<br> <br> Old Man and the Ass," and "The Frogs Who Asked for a King."<br> <br> David Schorr has just as captivatingly illustrated them.<br> <br>
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