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The fable was made into an animated cartoon by Aesop's Film Fables in 1922; there was also a two minute cartoon incorporating the fable and ending with an advertisement for Coca Cola as a promoter of friendship that was issued in 1953. In 1966 the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) adapted the story as The Bear and the Mouse; it was issued as a short feature film using real animals with voice-over. This film was followed 10 years later by an NFB animated short The Lion and the Mouse, directed by Evelyn Lambart.
The story is a favourite subject of children's literature. Jerry Pinkney's The Lion & the Mouse (2009) tells it through pictures alone, without the usual text of such books, and won the 2010 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations. The story is updated and adapted to fit the conditions of the Serengeti National Park, in which it is set.
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