✨🦁🦋Fairytale Friday🦋🦁✨
Welcome to the Jungle...
Where fable meets fine art, and the improbable becomes the inevitable.
This week's tale has us trekking deep into the jungle, following the unlikely journey of a golden lion and a blue butterfly.
Published in New York by Reynal in association with William Morrow and Company in 1974, Lion and Blue is an allegorical fable about an unlikely pairing that reflects themes of transformation, longing, and crossing natural boundaries. American photographer and author Robert Vavra, known for his photographic studies of horses, shifts here to fiction, bringing his keen eye for animal behavior, symbolism, and storytelling to a narrative that is both imaginative and thought-provoking.
The book’s illustrations are by Fleur Cowles (1908-2009), the American artist, editor, and writer known for founding Flair magazine in the 1950's. Her unique, often surreal images enhance Vavra's storytelling, using rich golds and blues to emphasize the tale's symbolic and dreamlike elements. The work also features a preface by the Prince of the Netherlands. Our copy is a gift of Megan Holbrook and Eric Vogel.
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--Melissa (following the improbable), Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
