What would you do if you came face to face with a lion that was part of a traveling circus? Maxwell Mouse does, and he and the lion become friends and have a wonderful story to tell. The Maxwell Mouse stories are intended to put smiles on the faces of the readers of the book and on younger children to whom the book is being read. The stories generally take childhood situations and tell the stories through animal characters. In this book there are several themes at work. First, people from diverse backgrounds can work ...
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What would you do if you came face to face with a lion that was part of a traveling circus? Maxwell Mouse does, and he and the lion become friends and have a wonderful story to tell. The Maxwell Mouse stories are intended to put smiles on the faces of the readers of the book and on younger children to whom the book is being read. The stories generally take childhood situations and tell the stories through animal characters. In this book there are several themes at work. First, people from diverse backgrounds can work effectively together to resolve a problem as long as the parties have faith and trust in each other. In our complex world where we come into contact with many different people from many different cultures, we need to find a way to get along and work together and not fear those who are different from us as Maxwell did when he first saw the lion. (Now there was a little self preservation going on there, I must admit.) But, once he got over his fear of the lion, they became a good team. Another theme of this story is that children should not bully those weaker and smaller than they are, because there is always someone bigger, or groups of parties bigger, than any bully.
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