Small Mouse Big City

Country Mouse departs his peaceful rural home for the Big City. When he arrives the place takes his breath away with its sheer size and speed. He feels very alone on the dark, unfamiliar, dangerous streets.

Luckily, his friend City Mouse shows up just in time and, exploring together, they discover an amazing, intoxicating, magnificent place.

But, across the rooftops, Country Mouse can see the green hills of home: much as he loves city life with City Mouse, he knows there's no place like home.

The atmospheric quality of the illustrations – dizzying impressions of light, space, movement and colour – and the inventive page layouts capture Country Mouse's breath-taking first-timer's experience of the city in this visually absorbing re-telling of Aesop's fable.