A review by tashrow
Mouse & Lion by Rand Burkert, Nancy Ekholm Burkert

5.0

This classic Aesop fable is told with exceptional ease. The story focuses more on Mouse than other versions, even giving him top billing in the title. Mouse scampers right over Lion before he even realizes he is not a mountain. And as the tale goes, Lion grants Mouse a reprieve from being eaten and sends him on his way. In this story, Lion is captured in a hunter’s net and Mouse gnaws him free. Set in Africa, this story features a four-striped African grass mouse rather than the expected little brown mouse. Combined with the baobab trees, it all works to evoke Africa completely.

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