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Jerry Pinkney, Illustration for The Lion & the Mouse (Little, Brown Books). Museum purchase with acquisition funds from The Carle as well as support from Janet and Bill Gorth, Zora and Les Charles, H. Nichols B. Clark, Jane Bayard Curley, Shelley and Jonathan Isaacson, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Xeric Foundation, Judee Rainville and Christopher B. Milne, Cathryn Mercier, Josalyn Moran, Leslie and Paul Cooper, Rebecca Miller Goggins and Mark Goggins, Ellen Keiter and Jordi Kern, and Alexandra Kennedy and James Haug. © 2009 Jerry Pinkney.
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