The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
- The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
"The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse" is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published in (1918).
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.
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*gutenberg|no=15284|name=The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/kids/Town-Mouse/Jt00.htm "The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse" with illustrations]
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