The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
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The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published in (1918).
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The book retells the Aesop Fable of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse." The country mouse, Timmy Willie, falls asleep in a hamper, and is carried with the vegetables to the city, where the mice, including Johnny Town-Mouse, make him welcome, but finding the cat frightening and the food strange, he returns by the hamper. Sometime later, Johnny Town-Mouse pays him a visit, but finding such things as cows and lawnmowers frightening, returns to the city himself.
In the animated version of this tale, Johnny Town-Mouse is voiced by popular British actor, Hugh Laurie.
[edit] External links
- The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, available at Project Gutenberg.
- The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse with illustrations
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