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. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney was the winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal, the highest honor for children’s books. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier.

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The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney