~ W. C. Fields
Mice in Council
by Katsushika Hokusai
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Guardians of Day and Night
from the Han Dynasty
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Paper Rat
by Eric Joisel
Mouse Reading the Newspaper
by Beatrix Potter
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Golden Rat of Hamelin (Germany)
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Ratty and Mole
from The Wind in the Willows
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In The Abbey Library
by David Elliot, an illustrator for the Redwall series (these rodents like to cook!)
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From Real Nature Stories
illustrated by Vera E. Stone and Milo Winter
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Links:
* I'm not sure who did the Ratty and Mole illustration. The Wikipedia list of Wind in the Willows illustrators is pretty long!
* The post title is from Robert Burns' To a Mouse
* Large Mouse in a Fashionable Coat
* Poor dormouse (which I think is from this book)
* Rat meets Koi, part of the MacRatGhost series
* A favorite mouse: Sorcerer's Apprentice lesson plans
* Ratku (rat + haiku)
* The Science of Fairy Tales - Hamelin's Rat Problem Then & Now
* An art nouveau The Pied Piper Pour Femme
1 comment:
Loved the rodent theme today...especially liked the Golden Rat of Hamelin.
P.S. Our cats loved it, too. ;-)
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