Abel's island /
William Steig.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
- 117 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
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Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.