The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: An Aesop Fable

Title

en_US The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: An Aesop Fable

en_US Invitations to Literacy

Description

en_US Retold by Sarah Keane

Creator

en_US Keane, Sarah See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Wold, Gregory

Date

2018-08-29T16:42:35Z

en_US 2018-08

en_US 1996

Date Available

2018-08-29T16:42:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1996

Abstract

en_US I had time between trains in Washington, DC, and went bumming around the station. To my surprise, I found a used book shop. I decided to plunge into their children's books and actually found four fable books! And I paid a whopping $5.25 for them all. Here is one of my finds. A check on the author led me to our collection's one other volume by her, a TH in the same format but translated into Spanish by another writer. I hope to find more in the series. Like that "La liebre y la tortuga," this is a sixteen-page pamphlet. It comes ready with an inside front-cover with blanks to be filled in indicating that the book belongs to a specific state and, e.g., school district. The booklet was to be issued to a specific student in a specific year. Nothing there is filled in in this copy. Wold's art is delightful from the start, as the town mouse sneaks out a grate on a porch to visit her cousin in the fields outside a village. In a throwback, the "pantry" in the town house is neither a room nor a refrigerator but rather a cabinet filled with all sorts of food, and the mice have a grand time inside it. The cat first appears as a shadow. This country mouse is decisive: "I would rather eat my plain corn and barley in peace, than BE a feast myself." Well told and well illustrated!

Identifier

en_US 11362 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/119067

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Houghton Mifflin

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ7.K436Tow 1996 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value