This story starts on the cover with the glorious, golden countenance of a lion. No text is necessary to communicate the title: the direction of the beast's gaze and the conflicted expression on his tightly cropped face compel readers to turn the book over, where a mouse, almost filling the vertical space, glances back. The endpapers and artist's note place these creatures among the animal families of the African Serengeti. Each spread contributes something new in this nearly wordless narrative, including the title opening, on which th

　　The 2010 Caldecott Medal winner is The Lion & the Mouse.
The screech of an owl, the squeak of a mouse and the roar of a lion transport readers to the Serengeti plains for this virtually wordless retelling of Aesop’s classic fable. In glowing colors, Pinkney’s textured watercolor illustrations masterfully portray the relationship between two very unlikely friends.

太棒了，这本书，超出预想。
[画面]：野生动物描画的非?逼真形象，着色也很到位，让人一眼看去就很震撼，很大气。
[内容]：是无字绘本，讲述了一个道理：弱小的动物也可以发挥很大的作用，甚至挽救比其庞大的多的动物，此外，善有善报。故事里狮子无意中抓到一只小老鼠，但却放了它，于是当有一天捕猎人的陷井网住狮子的时候，小老鼠及时出现咬断了麻绳让狮子重获自由。
[推荐]：非常值得收藏的一本书，如果你是绘本迷，千万不要错过这一本！

还是相当不错的！
Little Brown的童书，纸张和印刷都把作品表现到极致，所以才能获得凯迪克金奖。

纸张很厚重细腻，画风温婉中藏着遒劲，个人有个人的理解吧。

相似题材的书也不少，这本书能够脱颖而出是有它的道理的。