![]() ![]() Pinkney’s stunning illustrations of the African landscape and the care with which he has drawn out the characters in the fable deliver. The cliché, a picture is worth a thousand words, holds true in the case of The Lion & the Mouse. Though at first this may seem strange, no aspect of the story or its moral is lost by this artistic choice. Pinkney is an award-winning artist and chose to tell this famous fable with no text. Later when the Lion is caught in a poacher’s trap the mouse chews through the trap and sets the lion free, proving that what goes around comes around. ![]() This unique children’s book is a wordless reimagining of one of Aesop’s most famous fables in which a ferocious lion plans to eat the timid mouse that woke him from his nap, but the lion has a change of heart and lets the mouse go. The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney was the winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal, the highest honor for children’s books. ![]()
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