Grosses Betes & Petites Betes (Big Beasts and Little Beasts)

Grosses Bêtes & Petites Bêtes means Big Beasts and Little Beats. Created, written and illustrated in 1911 by noted wooden toy designer and cartoonist Andre Helle, Grosses Bêtes & Petites Bêtes was intent on being a children's book that taught young people about animals. Perhaps this book was supposed to be read to children by their parents. While Helle's modern style of art was influential and attractive the content of the book itself has, over time, proven to be not as useful. Much of w