Beatrice Fontanel
Author of The Penguin (Animal Close-Ups)
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Works by Beatrice Fontanel
Musical Instruments: From Flutes Carved of Bone, to Lutes, to Modern Electric Guitars (1993) 148 copies
Le petit musée de Picasso (Albums documentaires - Les livres-coffrets) (French Edition) (2015) 2 copies
A l'école arc-en-ciel 2 copies
La voix des masques (French Edition) 2 copies
O Mundo do Teatro 1 copy
Co wiesz o dinozaurach? 1 copy
Viaggi nel tempo 1 copy
Bouwkunst 1 copy
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- Fontanel, Beatrice
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- Fontanel, Beatrice
- Birthdate
- 1957-08-11
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- France
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- France
- Birthplace
- Casablanca, Maroc
- Places of residence
- Montparnasse, Paris, France
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Journaliste - Short biography
- Béatrice Fontanel est iconographe et auteur de nombreux livres illustrés consacrés à la vie quotidienne, de plusieurs ouvrages de fiction et de recueils de poèmes.
Après des études de lettres, et une maîtrise sur l'écrivain argentin Julio Cortázar, elle devient journaliste à Bayard Presse.
Elle est l'auteur d'une centaine d'ouvrages destinés aux adultes et aux enfants, parmi lesquels: Mozart (2006), L'histoire de France dessinée, Mon copain Bogueugueu (Gallimard Jeunesse, 2006), La Parade des musiciens, Mathilde et les petits papiers (Actes Sud Junior, 2003), Ma première histoire de l'Art (Palette, 2009), Grand Corbeau (Sarbacane, 2007).
Elle a également publié deux recueils de poésie, La Ménagère cannibale (Seuil, 2003) et Éloge des nuages (La Martinière, 2005).
En 2009, elle obtient le prix du Premier roman du Doubs et le prix Jean d'Heurs du roman historique puis, en 2010, le prix Claude-Farrère de l'écrivain combattant, pour "L'Homme barbelé".
Elle vit aujourd'hui à Montparnasse.
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The Penguin: A Funny Bird by Béatrice Fontanel
Fontanel describes the life of a penguin over the course of a year, from finding a mate to hatching chicks. She also addresses different kinds of penguins and how scientists have studied them at the end of the book.
The classic and tragic tale of Tristan and Isolde, about a young man who slays a dragon and a giant and falls in love with Isolde, a beautiful young woman who happens to be the giant's niece, that he is meant to bring to his king as a bride, here told in a more simplified manner and accompanied with gorgeous illustrations by Fronty. According to wikipedia: the legend of Tristan and Iseult "is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan (Tristram) and the Irish princess Iseult (Isolde, Yseult, etc.). The narrative predates and most likely influenced the Arthurian romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, and has had a substantial impact on Western art, the idea of romantic love and literature since it first appeared in the 12th century. While the details of the story differ from one author to another, the overall plot structure remains much the same".
To see more work by Aurélia Fronty, visit her site: http://www.aureliafronty.com… (more)
To see more work by Aurélia Fronty, visit her site: http://www.aureliafronty.com… (more)
A fascinating combination of art history and sociology. Paintings can be an amazing visual documentary of human lives as they have been in various places and eras.
From Kirkus Reviews
Don't let the title mislead you. This is not another gathering of cute baby photographs. It is instead a stunning visual survey of the ways in which babies in traditional cultures (in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, primarily) are fed, dressed, carried, and treated. Fontanel and d'Harcourt (who also collaborated on Babies: History, Art and Folklore, 1997) provide informed, sympathetic captions to extraordinary photographs depicting such things as babies being ritually massaged; wrapped in swaddling cloths; adorned with pigments and dressed in often brilliantly colored ritual clothes to bring good fortune; carried, in baskets, net bags, and slings, on backs and in the arms of siblings or parents; and fed. Several points are inescapable: in traditional cultures, babies go where their parents goto the fields, to market, on visits. They are present almost from birth in the essential routines of these cultures. And in more traditional cultures babies are more immediately and closely integrated into society, with a greater variety of family and friends assuming some responsibility for care and protection. The range of cultures depicted (from the Kayapo of the Amazon to nomads in Tibet) is wide, and the photographs sharp, brilliant, and fascinating. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.… (more)
Don't let the title mislead you. This is not another gathering of cute baby photographs. It is instead a stunning visual survey of the ways in which babies in traditional cultures (in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, primarily) are fed, dressed, carried, and treated. Fontanel and d'Harcourt (who also collaborated on Babies: History, Art and Folklore, 1997) provide informed, sympathetic captions to extraordinary photographs depicting such things as babies being ritually massaged; wrapped in swaddling cloths; adorned with pigments and dressed in often brilliantly colored ritual clothes to bring good fortune; carried, in baskets, net bags, and slings, on backs and in the arms of siblings or parents; and fed. Several points are inescapable: in traditional cultures, babies go where their parents goto the fields, to market, on visits. They are present almost from birth in the essential routines of these cultures. And in more traditional cultures babies are more immediately and closely integrated into society, with a greater variety of family and friends assuming some responsibility for care and protection. The range of cultures depicted (from the Kayapo of the Amazon to nomads in Tibet) is wide, and the photographs sharp, brilliant, and fascinating. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.… (more)
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