![]() ![]() He sips – never slobbers! He yips – never yaps! And he walks with grace – never races! Gaston fits right in with his poodle sisters. Gaston works the hardest at his lessons on how to be a proper pooch. This is the story of four puppies: Fi-Fi, Foo-Foo, Ooh-La-La, and Gaston. (Inversion does not equal subversion.) PARATEXT Gaston inverts that outcome after discovering the switch, Gaston stays with the family he has already bonded with. In The Ugly Duckling, the beautiful swan finds its ‘rightful’ place among the other swans. ![]() Gaston is a spin on The Ugly Duckling and all those descendent stories for children about a young character accidentally switched at birth into the wrong family. ![]() SETTING OF GASTONįrance, mostly inside a house, also at a park. The plots are not at all similar, but they share the same ideological problems, intending to say one thing, inadvertently saying another. I liken Gaston to another popular contemporary picture book: Drew Daywalt’s The Day The Crayons Quit. ![]() Gaston is a picture book written by Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated in beautiful naive style by Christian Robinson. ![]()
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