Town Mouse Country Mouse

Title: Town Mouse Country Mouse
Genre: Children’s
Author and Illustrator: Aldren A. Watson (1917-2013)
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., New York, New York
Series: “A Young Owl Book”
Year: 1966
Pages: 30
Format: Hardback, large-format with library binding.
Provenance: Rubber stamps on endpapers and title page indicating library discard; “C1 6-25-69” written in ball-point pen on title page; residue from library pocket inside front cover.
Random Passage: “Winter in the country”
Goodreads Review:
Notes: Town Mouse Country Mouse is not so much a traditional storybook as a series of delightfully detailed vignettes showing mice in human-like settings such as a country store, campgrounds, city streets, etc. The brief text uses Aesop’s classic fable as a loose inspiration for the large-scale artwork; most of a reader’s enjoyment will come in discovering new details in Watson’s lovely imagery.