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

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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79210

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Angus & Robertson Publishers

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M366 To 1977

en_US One fable

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole