Item
Town Mouse/Country Mouse
- Title
- en_US Town Mouse/Country Mouse
- en_US Puffin Books
- 0
- Description
- en_US Twenty-third printing
- en_US Jan Brett
- Creator
- Brett, Jan See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Brett, Jan
- Date
- 2016-04-20T15:51:28Z
- 2015-07
- en_US 1994
- Date Available
- 2016-04-20T15:51:28Z
- Date Issued
- 1994
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a paperback version of a book I love! It is lavishly and carefully done. Do not miss the silks and jewels in the city and the woven patterns frequent in the country. The borders of the illustrations are a treat in themselves, depicting things like tassels, buttons, cones, pasta shells, and postage stamps. The story has two couples discovering that there is no place like home. The enemies are parallel: the cat in the city and the owl in the country. The two mice couples meet and decide to trade houses. There are some wonderful touches of observation and imagination here. The town woman mistakes rain for a leaking bathtub. Her husband's colorful jacket attracts a predator bird. The two wipe soot from the city window to see the blue sky that reminds them of their country home. The cat falls from a stack of piled-up dishes. To the frightened country mice, the cat is an "owl with teeth," and the owl is, to their counterparts, "a cat with wings." The two predators collide as they are chasing the mice on the way back to their homes. As he comes to, the cat suggests to the owl that they trade places. The only thing lost in this inexpensive paperback version is the hardbound book's clever cover illustration of country tweed.
- Identifier
- en_US 10673 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Puffin Books: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
- NY
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.B6675To 2003 See all items with this value
- Book containing one fable See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books