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Everyone loves Willy the wind-up mouse, while Alexander, the real mouse, is chased away with brooms and imperiled by mousetraps. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be loved and cuddled, thinks Alexander, and he wishes he could be a wind-up mouse, too. In this gentle fable about a real mouse and a mechanical one, Leo Lionni explores the magic of friendship.

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Leo Lionni

Leo Lionni

1910 - 1999
Dutch American
Leo Lionni is the internationally acclaimed author-illustrator of over a dozen book for children, four of which were chosen as Caldecott Honor Books... See more

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Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
It's the turn this very ordinary plot takes that makes all the difference:...

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