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Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown
3.0

Caldecott Medal, 1962

This is a circular story, which begins and ends with a hermit pondering big and little. The hermit sees a mouse getting chased by a crow, and changes it into a cat to protect it. Things sort of escalate from there. The illustrations are wood-carvings, and kind of pretty, although not my favorite style.