Lion and Mouse

About the author

Author JAIRO BUITRAGO has collaborated with Rafael Yockteng on several picture books, including Jimmy the Greatest! (six starred reviews), Two White Rabbits (three starred reviews), Walk with Me (three starred reviews), Lion and Mouse (two starred reviews) and Wounded Falcons (two starred reviews and named a USBBY Outstanding International Book). Jairo has also won the Hispanoamericano Castillo prize for children's literature and the Antonio García Cubas Award. He lives in Mexico City, Mexico.
RAFAEL YOCKTENG has illustrated many highly acclaimed children’s books, including Afterward, Everything was Different: A Tale From the Pleistocene; Wounded Falcons (two starred reviews and named a USBBY Outstanding International Book); Jimmy the Greatest! (six starred reviews); Two White Rabbits (three starred reviews); and Walk with Me (three starred reviews) by Jairo Buitrago. Rafael’s books have been included on IBBY’s Honor List, the Horn Book Fanfare and in the White Ravens Catalogue. He lives in Bogotá, Colombia.
ELISA AMADO is a Guatemalan-born author and translator. She has written My Friend (Mi amiga), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano; Un Barrilete para el Día de los Muertos / Barrilete: A Kite for the Day of the Dead; Cousins (Primas), illustrated by Luis Garay; and Tricycle (El triciclo), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano, which is on the Américas Award Commended List and is a USBBY Outstanding International Book. She lives in Toronto.

Summary

A fresh take on the classic fable of the lion and the mouse from picture-book masters Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng.

Foreword

REVIEW COPIES:

• Publishers Weekly


• School Library Journal


• Booklist


• Kirkus Reviews


• Horn Book

Product details

• Authors: Jairo Buitrago
• Assisted by: Rafael Yockteng (Illustration), Elisa Amado (Translation), Eliza Amado (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 3
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781773062242
• ISBN: 978-1-77306-224-2
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 219 mm x 219 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Illustrations: full-color illustrations throughout
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs > Fairytales and sagas; JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Mammals, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mammals, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year; picture book, beautifully illustrated