Then suddenly something brushed the lion's foot, and he was jolted awake. There before him stood a trembling mouse. "I'm sorry, sir. I didn't mean to wake you ..." "Fool!" the lion roared.

In the final session of our Aesop’s Fables unit the children move to the story of the Lion and the Mouse. They show how the Lion catches the Mouse and then sets him free, only to be caught ...

A mouse happens upon a sleeping lion in the forest. Unwisely, he climbs up onto the lion and boasts about how mice need not be scared of lazy lions. The lion, by now not asleep, grabs the mouse ...

interpretation of Aesop's fable is wordless—as is its striking cover, which features only a head-on portrait of the lion's face. Mottled, tawny illustrations show a mouse unwittingly taking ...

Aesop's fable about the lion and the mouse goes like this. The lion spares the life of the mouse, and the mouse later rescues the lion. Children's book illustrator Jerry Pinkney gave this tale a ...

In 2010, his wordless adaptation of the Aesop fable “The Lion and the Mouse” led to his receiving the Randolph Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustration. He was a five-time winner of the ...

Scholastic/di Capua, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-10147-9 In jaunty prose, first-time author Rand Burkert—the illustrator’s son—retells Aesop’s fable of the mouse who stumbles over a lion ...