Books with title The Greentail Mouse

Originally published in 1973, this is the offbeat fable of a city mouse who visits his peaceful country cousins and tells them about Mardi Gras in the city. The country mice are inspired to have their own Mardi Gras. And at first, it is fun wearing their masks with sharp teeth and tusks and scaring each other, but after a while, they begin believing that they really are ferocious animals.Leo Lionni's winsome mice cavort across big double-page spreads of oil paintings and tell a story about what is real and what is not that is just right for preschoolers. Reissued in hardcover in 2003, it now makes its debut in Dragonfly paperback.

The beloved fable from four-time Caldecott Honor winner Leo Lionni!Originally published in 1973, this is the offbeat fable of a city mouse who visits his peaceful country cousins and tells them about Mardi Gras in the city. The country mice are inspired to have their own Mardi Gras. And at first it is fun wearing their masks with sharp teeth and tusks and scaring each other, but after a while they begin believing that they really are ferocious animals.Leo Lionni’s winsome mice cavort across big double-page spreads of oil paintings and tell a story about what is real and what is not that is just right for preschoolers.

Originally published in 1973, this is an offbeat fable about the city mouse who visits his peaceful country cousins and tells them about Mardi Gras in the city. What fun it would be to make masks of fearsome animals and have our own Mardi Gras, think the country mice. And at first it is fun wearing their masks with sharp teeth and tusks and scaring each other, but after awhile they begin believing that they really are ferocious animals. All the mice are frightened and suspicious of each other until one mouse finds a way to make them happy to be real mice again.Leo Lionni’s winsome mice, all cousins to his beloved Frederick, cavort across big double-page spreads of oil paintings and tell a story about what is real and what is not that is just right for preschoolers.From the Hardcover edition.

This is a story of two friends, a mouse and a cat. Both of them were very good friends and stayed together. One day, their owner had gone to the market. They went to the cupboard and started eating the goodies from the cupboard. Suddenly, their owner came back! What happened after that? Were the two friends caught? Let us read the story and find out. Not so long ago, there lived a man called Mr. Brown Low. He had a beautiful little cottage. In that cottage, stayed a mouse and a cat. The mouse was called Little Mouse and the cat was called Milly. Both Little Mouse and Milly were best friends. Little Mouse then said, “Today’s meal was very good. We will try something else tomorrow.” Milly also agreed. Then, both of them slept on the cupboard. Suddenly, they heard the sound of footsteps. They got up at once. Milly said to Little Mouse, “I think Mr. Brown Low has come back. Come let us get out of here.” Milly ran from the cupboard as fast as she could.When Milly reached a safe place, she looked back at Little Mouse. She saw that Little Mouse was still in the cupboard! Milly thought, “Oh! Little Mouse is so greedy. He is still trying to pull out a piece of cheese from Mr. Brown Low’s cupboard.” She called out, “Little Mouse, leave the cheese or Mr. Brown Low will hit you.This 16-page richly illustrated book is a part of our Classic tales collection, which consists of stimulating and enthralling stories for children.