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Mice, Morals, & Monkey Business

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A perfect choice for bedtime, playtime, quiet-time, or rainy-day parent-child bonding, Mice, Morals, & Monkey Business: Lively Lessons From Aesop's Fable features twenty-one linoleum block prints illustrating a key moment in each classic fable and highlight the moral printed in Christopher Wormell's hand-cut typeface on the opposite page. An impressive work, Mice, Morals & Monkey Business raises the children's picturebook up to the level of a museum quality artwork that will appeal to adults and children alike. Very highly recommended for family and community library collections.

I had been hoping for an actual Aesop's Fables book which this was not. It is more like an adult waiting room book with one sentence lesson per page and beautiful illustrations. It is very nice for what it is, but not a book for younger children (for some reason I didn't realize this until I received it).

I ordered this book while in California and it was on my doorstep by the time I returned to Maine a week later.The condition was excellent. I couldn't be more pleased. Christopher Wormell is an outstanding printmaker and artist. His books are a real treat, and not always available from mainstream sources.