La Réunion
(French)
110
Ecormier, Joëlle (text)
Madoré, Modeste (illus.)
Complètement zébré (Completely striped)
Saint-André (La Réunion): Océan-Éd., 2008. – [36] p.
(Océan Jeunesse)
ISBN 978-2-916-53351-3
Zebra – Herd – Fashion – Herd instinct
Raoul loves to be a zebra. He loves to graze with his herd and to be exactly like the other zebras. The »zebra outfit« fits perfectly, it lengthens the silhouette, hides the problem areas, and makes an elegant, athletic figure. But Raoul is a dreamer and misses that his »colleagues« have in the mean time switched style. Instead of the black and white stripes, the zebras now suddenly sport a brown snail pattern. By the time Raoul has changed his look, however, the brown snail pattern is already »old hat«. Will Raoul become a fashion victim? The topics of fashion and being »with it« are broached in an animal fable in this picture book. In this way, they are approached from dif-ferent points of view and – certainly in part due to the colourful and energetic pictures – wittily satirized. (4+)