The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse: Aesop's Fable Retold
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Manning-Sanders, Ruth
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1977
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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.
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Angus & Robertson Publishers
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3870 (Access ID)