The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

 Written and Illustrated by Helen Ward

My daughter picked this out at the library.  She marched happily into the building, found this book, grabbed it, and ran over to one of the couches to sit and "read" it herself.

 The art is great.  Each page has great composition.  The story is told well enough in pictures so that the text is almost unnecessary.

The layout is pleasant, with a small section of cream as the backdrop for the short description of events on each page.

There is little to no embellishment of the story.  There is no attempt to draw out the characters.  The author doesn't bother describing the pictures in detail.  It's basically all I could ask for.

Plus the cover is golden.  Which is probably why it caught my daughter's attention in the first place.