Summary
A mouse with a big voice saves his family from a mouse trap and a cat and prevents the household valuables from being burgled. Full description
Summary: |
A mouse with a big voice saves his family from a mouse trap and a cat and prevents the household valuables from being burgled. |
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Item Description: |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Crowell-Collier Press, 1963. (A Modern masters book for children) |
Physical Description: |
[30] p. : ill. ; 15 cm. |
ISBN: |
0152494944 |
Author Notes: |
His first collection, The Beautiful Changes, was published in 1947. His other collections of poetry included The Mind-Reader and Anterooms. In 1957, he received the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for Things of This World. He received a second Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for New and Collected Poems. He became the second poet laureate of the United States in 1987-88 and received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2006. He also wrote and illustrated several children's books and wrote lyrics for opera and musical theater productions including Leonard Bernstein's Candide. He was a translator of poems and other works from the French, Spanish, and Russian, including the plays of Molière and Jean Racine. He was the co-recipient of the Bollingen Translation Prize in 1963. He died on October 14, 2017 at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) |