The Lion And The Mouse Story With Pictures Pdf Download

It was a hot day and the lion was taking a rest after a long hunt. The playful mouse came out of his hole and started climbing up and down the lion. The running of the mouse tickled the lion and he woke up.

We first started off by reading the story with a picture book with no words which was incredible as it allowed us to discuss the plot and the feelings of all the characters. The quick summary of the plot is that the lion catches a mouse, and the mouse begs the lion to be freed saying that it will return the favor some day. The lion sets the mouse free but scoffs thinking that such a small creature could never be of help. Soon after though the lion gets trapped by some hunters with a snare made of rope. The mouse sees that the lion is trapped, and gnaws the rope through to set the lion free. And the lion realizes that even the smallest creatures can be of great help, and that no kind deed is wasted.

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I wanted my girls to remember this story, so we decided to put together our very own puppet show. This became a fun art project, and we used materials that we had at home- like construction paper, popsicle sticks and some old craft pieces. We kept the puppet show very simple and just made the lion, the mouse, some grass and used yarn for our snare. My 5-year old wanted to be the mouse. I was the lion. And my 2-year old was the hunter who threw the rope over the lion. We reenacted the whole plot and then at the end of the story, my 5-year old stated the moral. We performed the show for her father, and now she wants to do a roadshow with other friends that come over.

The Lion & the Mouse is a 2009 nearly wordless picture book illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. This book, published by Little, Brown and Company, tells Aesop's fable of The Lion and the Mouse. In the story, a mouse's life is a spared by a lion. Later, after the lion is trapped, the mouse is able to set the lion free. Adapting the fable, with the moral that the weak can help the strong, as a wordless picture book was seen as a successful way of overcoming the brief plot generally found in the source stories. While it was Pinkney's first wordless picture book, it was not the first time he had told the story, having previously included it in his Aesop's Fables, published in 2000. Pinkney, who had received five Caldecott Honors, became the first African American to win the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in this book. His illustrations were generally praised for their realism and sense of place. The cover illustrations, featuring the title characters but no text, drew particular praise.

This book is the second time Pinkney has told this story, the first being as part of his 2000 compendium of Aesop's Fables.[1] When creating this book it was important for Pinkney to balance retelling a classic story and expressing the African-American experience.[2] He also wanted to show that a fable could be "action packed" and not just moralistic.[3] The story is Pinckney's favorite fable and he felt that the characters of the mouse and the "majestic lion" were particularly relatable for children.[2][3][4] For Pinkney a wordless version seemed like a natural evolution of the "sparse" versions of the story he had seen elsewhere.[4] It was Pinkney's first wordless picture book, although he began creating it intending to include words and it was only after completing the illustrations that he realized it could be wordless.[2] When he showed it to his editor he gave her a version that included onomatopoetic animals sounds and one without; they both agreed that the other animals sounds improved the story, with Pinkney commenting that, "[t]hese sounds surround me with a continuity and motion and energy ... It's nature speaking".[2] Pinkney hoped that the story would inspire its readers to think of its African setting, the Serengeti, as a place that people need to pay attention to and save.[2]

In this book where the only words are the sounds made by the animals, the story begins at dawn. The mouse escapes several predators before coming upon the lion. The lion lets the mouse go. Later, some hunters come along and capture the lion with the net. The mouse chews through the rope of the net, freeing the lion and they become friends.

This book is unusual in that it does not have any text on its front dust cover, just the picture of the lion, though this is something that this book's publisher had done before.[1][5][8] This back cover features the mouse, such that when the book is opened the mouse and the lion look at each other.[5][8] The events of the story further the personality traits shown during the course of the story; the lion is powerful while the mouse is curious and alert.[9] These personalities are shown through the other animals' body parts that are illustrated in close-up.[10]

This book's illustrations of the Serengeti were seen as well-researched and carefully drawn.[5] Part of this is that the illustrations of the animals are drawn in correct proportion to each other.[5] While the perspective is drawn at human eye-level, the reader is encouraged to think of other perspectives, such as to look down to notice details like the mouse.[11][12] Further, the animals are able to convey emotions without becoming personified.[1][5][9] Pinkney's use of panels in select moments drew comparisons to that of a silent movie and helped to convey the pace and intensity of the action.[5][9] Other elements of the design, such as Pinkney's use of white space, also enhance the mood and quality of this book.[9]

This book's theme of how the "powerful can crush the weak" was seen as particularly timely.[4][13] Unlike in many retellings of the story, in this wordless book the mouse is unable to vocally bargain with the lion.[11] Yet the story is still able to capture the original story's message "that definitions of meek and might are simply a matter of perspective".[11] Through their respective strengths and weaknesses the lion and the mouse are able to find a need to collaborate and even be friends.[10][15] Pinkney was also interested in exploring the setting of the story and the characters' families.[4][12][15] The "temptation, danger, and choice" the characters have to face could suggest a Garden of Eden-like setting, according to Horn Book.[16]

There was once a compassionate sage. One day while searching his home, the sage uncovered a mother and five baby mice. Terrified, the mother ran away, leaving the baby mice. The kind sage fed the babies with some grain. One day a mouse came and devoured four of the mice, but one escaped. The old man continued to feed and care for the last baby mouse. The cat came back to finish the job and eat the last mouse, but the sage chased her away. Every time the sage closed his eyes to meditate, the wily cat came back. Eventually, the sage reasoned that this was not sustainable and he could not always protect the cat, so he had an idea.

He used his magical powers to turn the baby mouse into a fierce cat. The idea worked and the cat never came back. However, a wild dog soon discovered there was a tasty cat living with the sage and hung around waiting for an opportunity for a tasty meal. Once again, the sage thought to himself, this is so inconvenient. Once again the sage used his powers and changed the cat, who was once a mouse, into a dog. Again, it worked, but only for a while.

This is a wonderful rhyming story of a little Mouse and the King of the jungle/dessert - Lion...

As with all my books the first thing I do when starting a project is to start designing the main characters, sometimes they come to me very quickly, sometimes not and I have to try and squeeze it out of every pencil and pen I have. The mouse of this book was the latter specimen.

I find once I've cracked the 'look' of the main character, it really helps me on track to get the look and feel of the whole book.

Below I've selected the designs that made it onto my computer, there was half a sketchbook of tiny mouse doodles. This first 'ROAR' (image below) of the mouse I really liked, it had a good looseness and energy in the brush work when I was dabbling with some new brushes in photoshop.

Another key element of this story is the rock. Mouse lives at the bottom in his tiny little house and Lion lives on top of the rock. I visited Joshua Tree Park in California a couple of years ago and the incredible rock formations stayed with me, the way they had eroded looked at times like giant Henry Moore sculptures. I had the idea to make the rock resemble the lions head, it would give the sense of Lion being King of the dessert for those Eagle (or Lion) eyed readers. 17dc91bb1f