Just like the Sunbird sucks nectar from flowers, so will children find sweetness in these stories. Sunbird Readers have been specifically designed to encourage reading for pleasure and meet the supplementary reading needs of children between the age of four and seven years. Wide and repeated reading of books in this series should help to automatically improve the pupil’s written as well as spoken English. In The Lion and the Mouse, King lion is one day caught in a net. Hunters want to carry him alive to the chief. They go away to look for logs to make a cart on which to carry him. Lion is very worried. What will he do?