LION AND THE MOUSE

$20.00

This New York Times bestselling and award-winning fable of compassion and kindness, as reimagined by legendary artist Jerry Pinkney, is an essential addition to any bookshelf of children’s classics
In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted.
After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's trap.
With vivid depictions of the landscape of the African Serengeti and expressively-drawn characters, Pinkney makes this a truly special retelling, and his stunning pictures speak volumes.
Winner of Caldecott Medal for 2010
This wordless book retells the classic Aesop’s fable, but with an African setting
A mouse accidentally disturbs the quiet of a lion and expects to get eaten, but is released unharmed by the lion
The mouse remembers this great kindness and later repays the lion by chewing through ropes that have made the lion a prisoner