When the young mouse Nicolas sets out across the great meadowalone in search of ripe red berries, he is grabbed up by the clawsof a huge bird and carried high into the sky. But that is only thebeginning of Nicolas's adventure. How he gets the berries he washoping to find, and learns to trust the very creatures he thoughtwere his enemies, makes this Leo Lionni fable one that youngchildren will want to hear again and again.