num_pages: 24
description: I Like to Read Books for Beginning Readers More than 70 fun-to-read books for new readers Guided reading levels A through G based upon Fountas and Pinnell standards Award-winning easy reader series created by acclaimed author-illustrators including winners of Caldecott Theodor Seuss Geisel and Coretta Scott King honors Levels A though D for kindergarten readers; levels D through G for early first grade readers 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 friendsas spiffily attired as she herselfand together they unlock the lion's cage and prove that little mice can be big friends.
language: English
title: The Lion and the Mice
publisher: Holiday House