A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a Town Mouse turns up her nose at her country relative’s plain food and invites her to a city feast, where a mewing Cat and a House Dog send the Country Mouse hurrying home to her simple, safe life.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
A Town Mouse came down a country path to visit a relative, a mouse from her family. “Welcome, welcome!” called the Country Mouse from her door.
“Have an acorn!” said the Country Mouse. Lunch was acorns, roots, wheat stalks, and cold water. The Town Mouse took one tiny, polite nibble, nose in the air.
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