The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

by Ellen Schecter, Aesop

When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they find they prefer very different ways of life

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

ELLEN SCHECTER has been published widely in print and on the web. Many of her books are for children, and her first novel, The Big Idea [Hyperion] won the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She’s written and collaborated on multiple-award-winning TV for PBS, Disney, CBS, and the Discovery Channel. Not bad for someone who never grew up.

Excepts from her new memoir, Fierce Joy, have been published online on ducts.org, Lilith magazine, and the University of Virginia Medical Arts Journal.

Check out the great reviews of her latest book, FIERCE JOY, at faboverfify: best memoirs of the year so far [faboverfifty.com/bookblog/2012/04]; New York Review of Books: Laura Schultz, in the New York Journal of Books:
“Ellen Schecter creates a visual symphony with her extraordinary command of the unique language of the soul.”
In “Diagnosis Is Not Death,” a review in Tablet by Sarah Ivry: “Illness does not always rob us of our spirit …and Schecter…finds in Judaism a sense of nurturing that… she didn’t realize she craved….I not only want to make peace with my illness, I want to sanctify it."

Reviews

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

As part of our homeschool summer activites we read country mouse vs city mouse books and then pick a town vs country activity to do. Today we read this copy and loves it. Little likes the ways mouse made the ideas for her home, rose quilt from spider webs was a hit! Mom liked that the mice were female - first time we have read one with female mice!

Thanks for a great story from an old thought.

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[Rod · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of those books that I made everybody read to me over and over agian before I was able to read it myself.