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Frederick
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Picture Book · Ages 3–7 · 1973
The Greentail Mouse
By Leo Lionni
Country mice's Mardi Gras masks lead to unexpected chaos.
3.3/5 Goodreads · 249 ratings
32 pages
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Bookroo's summary
A city mouse's tales of Mardi Gras inspire his country cousins to host their own festival. As the mice don masks with sharp teeth and tusks, fun turns to confusion. Are they still mice, or have they become the ferocious creatures they pretend to be? This whimsical fable explores the line between reality and imagination, inviting young readers to question what is real and what is not. Join the mice in their playful yet thought-provoking adventure.
From the publisher
Originally published in 1973, this is the offbeat fable of a city mouse who visits his peaceful country cousins and tells them about Mardi Gras in the city. The country mice are inspired to have their own Mardi Gras. And at first, it is fun wearing their masks with sharp teeth and tusks and scaring each other, but after a while, they begin believing that they really are ferocious animals. Leo Lionni’s winsome mice cavort across big double-page spreads of oil paintings and tell a story about what is real and what is not that is just right for preschoolers. Reissued in hardcover in 2003, it now makes its debut in Dragonfly paperback.
At a glance
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 32
- Reading age
- 3–7
- Audience
- Picture
- Lexile
- 810L
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The fine print
Book details
Reading levels
- ATOS
- 4.09
- F&P level
- ~S
- AR points
- 0.5
- AR interest level
- LG
- AR quiz
- 69427
Publication
- Published
- January 8, 2013
- First published
- January 1, 1973
- Publisher
- Dragonfly Books
Edition
- Language
- English
- Type
- Picture Book
Identifiers
- ISBN
- 9780307981516
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