The Mouse Who Saved Egypt

by Karim Alrawi, Bee Willey (Illustrator)

See how a small kindness can be repaid a thousand times over in this retelling of an ancient Middle Eastern folk tale.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2010

About the author

Karim Alrawi is a writer born Egypt. His family emigrated to England then to Canada. Alrawi graduated from University College London and the University of Manchester, England. He gained an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa.

He is an award winning playwright whose plays have been produced in the UK, USA and Canada.

He also writes children's books, as well as for television. His recent novel Book of Sands won the HarperCollins Prize for Best New Fiction.

Reviews

[Slayermel]

The moral of the story is nice, that every act of kindness will be rewarded even if in unexpected ways!

The story is about a young prince who rescues a mouse from being caught in a thorny bush, and how the mouse is able to repay him in turn one day when the prince finds himself in need of help.

Lovely drawings and a lot of new words for my daughter that we where able to discuss the meanings of

[Tiffany]

a simple sweet story about how kindness sowed reaps kindness.

[Roben]

A prince saves a mouse and later on, the mouse saves the prince - who has become Pharaoh.