Last month the author and artist Jerry Pinkney was awarded the highest honor for an illustrator of children's books: the Caldecott Medal. His wordless retelling of the classic Aesop fable, The Lion and the Mouse, contains stunningly beautiful renderings of this heartwarming story, set in the African Serengeti, that reminds young and old alike that no act of kindness is ever wasted. In this video he invites us into his studio to get a bit of background on this remarkable work of art.