The Lion and the Mouse
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The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 150 in the Perry Index. There are also Eastern variants of the story, all of which demonstrate mutual dependence regardless of size or status.
Woodcut showing two scenes from the fable in the Ysopu hystoriado, Seville 1521
Sculpture by Tom Otterness at the Beelden aan Zee museum
Lithograph in black pencil on cream-coloured background by John Doyle (artist), 1844
The Lion & the Mouse
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The Lion & the Mouse is a 2009 nearly wordless picture book illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. This book, published by Little, Brown and Company, tells Aesop's fable of The Lion and the Mouse. In the story
The Lion and the Mouse
…by Evelyn Lambart and with an original score by Maurice Blackburn. Though the fable is frequently a subject of children's literature, Jerry Pinkney's The Lion & the Mouse (2009) tells it through pictures alone, without the usual text of such books, and won the 2010 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations. The story is…
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