The Lion and the Mice

Arresting combinations of color and shape, along with spare and dramatic text, distinguish this easy-to-read picture book by Rebecca Emberley and her Caldecott Award-winning collaborator and father, Ed Emberley. In this interpretation of Aesop's fable, a mouse, in colorful attire suitable for a night on the town, finds herself trapped by a caged lion in a city zoo. the mouse begs to be released and promises to help the lion one day. the lion is skeptical but releases her nonetheless. Later that night, the mouse returns with mouse friends and together they unlock the lion's cage and prove that "little mice can be big friends."

Rebecca Emberley has written and illustrated more than thirty books for children. She lives in Maine.

Ed Emberley has created more than eighty books for children, including DRUMMER HOFF, which won the Caldecott Medal. He lives in Massachusetts.