The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Title

en_US The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Retold by Susanna Davidson; Based on a story by Aesop

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US East, Jacqueline

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:27Z

en_US 2011-01

en_US 2007

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:27Z

Date Issued

en_US 2007

Abstract

en_US I noticed this book as I wandered around Learning Sprout Toys in Tacoma on a morning of visiting after a fable lecture at Puget Sound University. The story starts in the present but promptly shifts to the past. Pipin is the country mouse. Pipin was surprised one day by a visit from Toby Town Mouse, come to stay. All it took, though, for Toby to reject country life and offer town life instead was an encounter with the nuts and berries that make up country food. Pipin was overwhelmed by the size of the train that they took into town. They wriggled into a man's green bag and were lifted aboard. In town, Pipin had to dodge in and out of stamping feet. In Toby's house, they ate until they were perfectly full. A cat woke them up and chased them to Toby's hole. That was enough for Pipin. Toby took him to the station and he returned home to declare, in his soft bed, This is the life for me. I thought the book might return to the present, perhaps with And that is why he now lies asleep in among the waving grasses, as it had begun. The illustration style is cute and probably appealing for children.

Identifier

en_US 9780794518776

en_US 7069 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82346

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US EDC]

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.D277 To 2007

en_US One story

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole