The Lion and the Mouse
$15.30
- Paperback
40 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2011
Summary
A stunning, wordless version of one of Aesop’s best-loved fables, from one of America’s most acclaimed artists.
In this Caldecott Medal-winning, wordless picture book, one of America’s most acclaimed artists retells one of Aesop’s best-loved fables. The fable is a favourite and familiar one: a mouse inadvertently disturbs a lion, who lets the mouse go … and is later himself freed by the mouse from a poacher’s trap. With art inspired by the Kenyan Serengeti, Jerry Pink…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781406332049 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1406332046 |
| Author: | Jerry Pinkney |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 276mm x 232mm |
| Audience Age: | 3-5 |
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Critics Review
This exquisite book is inspired by Kenya’s Serengeti, and from its end pieces, teeming with animals, to its close-ups of life as seen by mice and insects, it is a golden gift. * The Times *
Wordless, but carefully sequenced pictures convey Aesop’s fable beautifully … Readers will be enchanted by the magnificent golden palette and varying sizes of illustration, experiencing anew the traditional tale. * Carousel *
Jerry Pinkney
Jerry Pinkney is one of today’s best-loved children’s book makers. Over his forty-year career as an illustrator, he has received five Caldecott Honors and won the Coretta Scott King Award five times, as well as being nominated for the prestigious international Hans Christian Andersen Award. He lives in New York with his wife, the author Gloria Jean Pinkney.
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