The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

'There was once merely a mouse. He lived a small and quiet life among the seasons.'  So begins this stylish, spare retelling of this familiar fable. Lured by a cousin’s stories of exotic foods and dazzling surroundings, the mouse leaves the countryside for the city’s busy, electrified world. But despite the sumptuousness and glamour, life is perilous here; he misses 'the night sky lit only by the stars.'  The mouse’s grassy nest is, after all, where contentment lies.

With the clarity and elegance of Japanese prints, the atmospheric, beautifully coloured and breathtakingly detailed portrayals of the fauna and flora of the mouse’s countryside home contrast with the sweeping bustle and material scale of 1930s New York, in this visually stunning version of the classic tale told from a mouse-eye view.