The Greedy Mouse

Authors: Herminder Ohri, Herminder Ohri

Illustrator: Herminder Ohri
One day, MOUSE
found a very big bun.

“I will take this bun

into my house,” he
said.

2
He pushed the bun
from the back. It did
not move.

3
He pushed it from the
front. The bun did not
move.

4
He pushed it from the
right, the bun did not
move.

5
He ran around the
bun and pushed it
from the left, but it
still did not move.

6
Hmm... I will tie a
string around the bun
and pull it into my
house.

Mouse ran to the

house and got a
string, but it was too
short.

7
He went back and got
a longer string.

He tied the bun with

the long string, then
pulled and pulled but
it did not move.

8
Mouse sat down and
ate a little bit of the
bun.

It was very good. He

ate a little more, then
a little more, and a
little more till the bun
became smaller and
smaller.

9
He pushed the bun, it
rolled right into his
house. Mouse was
very happy.
The bun was safely in
his house.

But he had eaten so

much bun that his
stomach had become
so... so... big.

10
Mouse pushed and
pushed himself but
he could not get into
his house.

11
Mouse sat outside his
door holding his
stomach
and groaned, “I
should not have eaten
so much bun.
I should have shared
it with someone.”

12
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Illustration Attributions:
Cover page: A mouse nibbling on a bun, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 2: A mouse finds
a bun on the floor, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 3: A cookie, by Herminder Ohri ©
Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 4: A mouse crawling on a bun, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006.
Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 5: A mouse nibbling on a piece of bun, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights
reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 6: A mouse trying to push a piece of bun, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved.
Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 7: A mouse and a bun with a red thread around it, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved.
Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 8: A mouse ties a green thread around a bun, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved. Released
under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 9: A mouse eating a bun, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 10:
A mouse gnawing at a bun, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 11: A mouse munching on
something near his home, by Herminder Ohri © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license.

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The Greedy Mouse
A mouse tries to carry a big bun home. Then he learns that it does not
(English) always pay to be greedy.

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