| Summary: | "This is the February, 2002, number of a subscription pamphlet for young people and their parents. It contains four fox stories. From "Roman de Renard" comes the fable about the tail of Ysengrim. From "Kamchatka" comes "The Fox and the Seal." From Russia comes the fairy tale "La petite galette ronde." And from Siberia comes the fable "The Catch of Rocks." The stories are followed with puzzles, games, and consideration of a Pieter Boel's 17th-century painting of foxes. The Ysengrim story is illustrated well. I did not know that there was a hatchet-wielding hunter there to finally set Ysengrim free from her tail in the frozen ice-fishing hole. The second story has the fox arranging seals as stepping stones across an otherwise impassable stretch of water. "The Catch of Rocks" has the crow outsmarting the fox three times by sending him on fool's errands of carting huge rocks home from the seashore. They are supposed to turn into delightful fish to eat. The second and third time, the crow says that the fox did not use the magical formula and did look back along the way, respectively. There is some writing on the cover and on 24. There are some lovely fable images late in the magazine: FC on the capital of a church column, FS after Oudry, and UP by Grandville. I was unaware that such subscription magazines existed." Various Language note: French
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