The Lion and the Mouse: An Aesop's Fable.

Abstract

A very nice sideways book with the thickest pages I have encountered in a book in a long time. The art work is all black-and-white--perhaps charcoal? The story is told with dignity and sensitivity throughout. Some elements appear different here from the traditional tale. The mouse hears the lion's roar early in the day and stays out of the lion's way. There is a great presentation of the approach and capture by the hunters later the same day. The concluding moral is good: It holds throughout the whole scale of Creation,/that the Great and the Little have need, one of another.