Wild Lion and the Mice: A Fable about Kindness

Title

en_US Wild Lion and the Mice: A Fable about Kindness

en_US Scholastic Phonics Readers #71

Description

en_US A retelling by Adrienne Betz

Creator

en_US Betz, Adrienne

Contributor

en_US Illustrated by Jane Manning

Date

2016-01-25T20:10:53Z

en_US 2011-06

en_US 1997

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:10:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US This is a square 16-page pamphlet 5½ on a side. The colored cover has a lion looking down positively on two mice who are running away from him. The title-page reproduces the same illustration in black-and-white. From there on the booklet's illustrations are either black-and-white or duochrome: black and orange. In this version it is a mother mouse and her child that run by the sleeping lion. Illustrations from the story itself are interspersed with those of a Black storyteller narrating to a small audience of Black children. The timing here has the lion release the mice during the day, get caught at night, and experience help in the morning from the two mice. These two seem to come by by chance. Perhaps the best illustration in the booklet is the two-page illustration of the mice freeing the lion (12-13). The moral is a bit surprising: No one is too big or too little to be kind!

Identifier

en_US 9780590999489

en_US 7631 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82891

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Scholastic

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B48 Wi 1997

en_US One story

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

Pamphlet