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Once a Mouse

Once a Mouse

by Marcia Brown

1972FablesAnimalsFictionFolkloreJuvenile fiction
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

First lines

One day a hermit sat thinking about big and little-

About this book

As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain.

Themes & subjects

FablesAnimalsFictionFolkloreJuvenile fiction1962
First published 1972

Setting

India

About the author

Marcia Brown
Marcia Brown

13 July 1918 – 28 April 2015

Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She has won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, and six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, and the ALA's Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1992 for her career contribution to children's literature. Many of her titles have been published in translation, including Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Spanish and Xhosa-Bantu editions. Brown is known as one of the most honored illustrators in children's literature.

Author

Marcia Brown

First published

1972

Pages

32

Read time

≈ 1h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

Scribner

ISBN

9780689707513

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