# The Lion & the Mouse

**Author:** Jerry Pinkney
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**First published:** 2009
**Page count:** 40
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780316013567`
**ISBN-10:** `0316013560`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-lion-and-the-mouse
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.

## Where this book is assigned

### Caldecott Medal

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2010 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2010 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2010 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2010 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)

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