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Folktales & LegendsPicture bookLevel 2Ages 3–5

The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse: A Gentle Retelling

English · 15 pages · 341 words · 3 min read

A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a very young Mouse runs home from his first walk to tell his mother about a terrible, roaring monster and a gentle, pretty creature he wanted for a friend, but the monster was only the Cock, and the pretty one, his mother tells him, was the Cat.

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    Patter, patter! A very young Mouse crept out of his hole. He wanted to see the big world, and this was his first walk outside.

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    Soon he raced home, out of breath. He did not know how lucky he was. “Mother!” he squeaked. “Such adventures I had!”

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