A review by triscuit807
Belling the Tiger by Pierre Pratt, Mary Stolz

5.0

5 stars. What a shame this is out of print. The story is charming and the illustrations are adorable. Stolz takes "who will bell the cat" to another level. Asa and Rambo are small twin mice who live in the cellar. The other mice choose them to bell the cat living in the house. And they make a valiant attempt; they manage to get a collar with a bell but their journey home is derailed by a cat and they escape to a ship which then sails away with them. They live a good life on the ship and when it docks again they decide to see another land. The book contains more text than the average picture book and would be perfect for a child reading early chapter books (2nd-3rd grade). I read this for my Reading Challenge (52 wks "color orange on cover") and my Newbery Challenge (Honor 1962). I read this via Open Library/Internet Archive due to library closures amid the Covid 19 pandemic.