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Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It.
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words.
I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page.
It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.
--Alisson Woods, author of Being Lolita Folklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta L�piz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It .
Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.
The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home.
In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand.
She turns everyone down.
until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch.
But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.
Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse.
But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.
Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one's control.
It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one's selfhood.
