The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice: A Homeric Fable Audiobook (Free)

You will never see war the same manner after scanning this extraordinary retelling of an ancient Greek fable about a tragically unnecessary battle between mice and frogs. With haunting illustrations, this small masterpiece ranks with Animal Farm as one of the very best parables of human being foibles. Originally published in 1962, The Fight from the Frogs as well as the Mice tells in words and pictures a classic tale of the foolhardiness of battle. When Crum-snatcher, a Mouse, cautiously mounts the back of about The Battle of the Frogs as well as the Mice: A Homeric Fable Puff-jaw, King from the Frogs, to explore the Frogs’ fish pond, the Mouse meets with a tragedy which shortly brings both countries into mortal discord. The course of this tempest within a teapot can be developed with wit to suppose heroic proportions, and the battle of this small world becomes the storyplot of wars through the age range.

George Martin offers made an imaginative, free adaptation of a fable originally ascribed to Homer, however now believed to have already been discussed 3 hundred years after him by an unknown author. The book’s occasions are brilliantly depicted from the drawings of Fred Gwynne, a flexible artist known for his function as Herman Munster in the sit-com strike The Munsters. Gwynne’s haunting and unsparingly illustrations portray this chronicle from its pastoral starting to its bitter end. Jointly, Martin and Gwynne have made a reserve of grim pleasure for adults and young readers alike.