The Frog and the Mouse
Title | The Frog and the Mouse PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Feierabend |
Publisher | First Steps in Music |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781579998028 |
Song is free in audio form at www.giamusic.com/frog.
The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice
Title | The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice PDF eBook |
Author | A. E. Stallings |
Publisher | Paul Dry Books |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2020-04-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1589881427 |
"A virtuosic, witty, charming translation of the greatest epic ever written about mice, with wonderful illustrations by Grant Silverstein. Stallings’ elegant rhyming couplets are the perfect choice to honor the mousy Muse."—Emily Wilson, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania From the award-winning poet and translator A. E. Stallings comes a lively new edition of the ancient Greek fable The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice. Originally attributed to Homer, but now thought to have been composed centuries later by an unknown author, The Battle is the tale of a mouse named Crumbsnatcher who is killed by the careless frog King Pufferthroat, sparking a war between the two species. This dark but delightful parable about the foolishness of war is illustrated throughout in striking drawings by Grant Silverstein. The clever introduction is written from the point of view of a mouse who argues that perhaps the unknown author of the fable is not a human after all: “Who better than a mouse, then, to compose our diminutive, though not ridiculous, epic, a mouse born and bred in a library, living off lamp oil, ink, and the occasional nibble of a papyrus, constantly perched on the shoulder of some scholar or scholiast of Homer, perhaps occasionally whispering in his ear? Mouse, we may remember, is only one letter away from Muse.” "[Stallings] couplets . . . have a lively, nimble music that should captivate modern ears . . . Providing an earthy, oboe-like obligato to Ms. Stallings's airs are the illustrations of Grant Silverstein, cross-hatched sketches that multiply like mice on the page . . . The Battle, in which beans are happily worn rather than eaten, still has the power to delight."—Wall Street Journal A. E. Stallings is an American poet who has lived in Athens, Greece since 1999. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia, and later at Oxford University. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile (which won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award), Hapax (recipient of the Poets’ Prize), Olives (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Like (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry). Her translation of Lucretius (into rhyming fourteeners), The Nature of Things, was called by Peter Stothard in the TLS “One of the most extraordinary classical translations of recent times.” Grant Silverstein is an American artist who specializes in etchings of a narrative character and in studies of figures, landscapes, and animals. With his wife and two cats, he spends winters holed up in his studio in rural Pennsylvania, where he uses a catch and release system for visiting mice and the occasional frog. Come spring, he ventures forth to display his work at outdoor festivals; he feels fortunate to have made his living this way for forty years. He has illustrated two previous Paul Dry Books titles, Davey McGravy by David Mason and The Verb 'To Bird' by Peter Cashwell.
By Mouse and Frog
Title | By Mouse and Frog PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Jane Freedman |
Publisher | Viking |
Pages | 41 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0670784907 |
"Mouse has one idea about what a book should be and how to tell a story. Frog has another. What happens when these two very different friends try to create a book together?"--
The Aesop for Children
Title | The Aesop for Children PDF eBook |
Author | Aesop |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN |
One hundred twenty-six best-loved fables of Aesop.
Aesop's Fables
Title | Aesop's Fables PDF eBook |
Author | Aesop |
Publisher | Wordsworth Editions |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781853261282 |
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Charlie & Mouse
Title | Charlie & Mouse PDF eBook |
Author | Laurel Snyder |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2017-04-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1452146403 |
Four hilarious stories, two inventive brothers, one irresistible story! Join Charlie and Mouse as they talk to lumps, take the neighborhood to a party, sell some rocks, and invent the bedtime banana. With imagination and humor, Laurel Snyder and Emily Hughes paint a lively picture of brotherhood that children will relish in a format perfect for children not quite ready for chapter books.
Mouse Soup
Title | Mouse Soup PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Lobel |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2011-06-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 006197417X |
Another sweet bedtime story about Mouse, from Arnold Lobel, the beloved author and illustrator of the Newbery Honor and Caldecott Honor award-winning Frog and Toad books. Weasel is ready for his dinner, and poor Mouse is it. Can Mouse stop Weasel from serving up mouse soup for supper? The clever mouse tells the weasel four stories to make the soup tasty—then manages to trick the weasel and get home safely. Arnold Lobel's Mouse Soup is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play of Level Two books are proven to help kids take their next steps toward reading success.