Item
The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse: Aesop's Fable Retold
- Title
- en_US The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse: Aesop's Fable Retold
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US By Ruth Manning-Sanders
- Creator
- en_US Manning-Sanders, Ruth See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Jones, Harold
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:01:34Z
- en_US 2001-06
- en_US 1977
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:01:34Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1977
- Abstract
- en_US I knew Harold Jones from his Tales from Aesop (1981), and so I was excited when I learned of this book--excited enough to pay a good deal for it. (It sold originally for £3.50). The book is worth its high price. Jones' illustrations are again delightful. Even more impressive here, I believe, is Manning-Sanders' excellent version of the story. The Country Mouse's one nemesis is the owl. However, he gives her a warning call, and so he never catches her. The Town Mouse criticizes from the beginning of her visit. Not all is negative for the Town Mouse in the city. She can laugh, for example, at one old lady's screaming at the sight of the two mice. And she can easily get away from the city's dogs; in fact, the mice even frisk their way by them. The cook enters the pantry with a candle and smells the presence of the mouse; he immediately calls the cat into the pantry. The cat catches the Country Mouse several times and even has her in his teeth once, but he lets her go each time. One of these times she gets away under a door and runs straight for home, without so much as a word to the Town Mouse.
- Identifier
- en_US 207957495
- en_US 3870 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Angus & Robertson Publishers
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.M366 To 1977 See all items with this value
- en_US One fable See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books