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+Date: 2026-08-25
+Book: The Lion and the Mouse
+Audience: Grace
+Status: source background established from supplied cover and story photos; page sequence is partial
+Tags: [kids-book, tactility, Grace, source-background]
+---
+
+# The Lion and the Mouse — Source Background
+
+## Source status
+
+- User supplied the cover plus seven photographed story pages, including the opening, release, rescue, and closing moral.
+- The photographed set is sufficient to establish the story arc and visual language. Any unseen intermediate pages should be captured before a page-for-page production package is built.
+- This is a private production reference for an original, child-friendly adaptation—not a reproduction of the physical book.
+
+## Main characters
+
+- **Lion:** A large golden-brown lion with a dark brown mane, big paws, and an expressive, friendly face. He is powerful but learns humility and gratitude.
+- **Mouse:** A tiny gray mouse in a bright red jacket. The Mouse is brave, kind, and resourceful despite being small.
+- **Hunters:** Off-page antagonists represented by the rope net/trap; no need to make them visually prominent in an adaptation.
+
+## Setting and visual language
+
+- Woodland forest with pale purple-gray tree trunks, broad green leaves, stones, and small pink flowers.
+- Classic colored-pencil/soft-watercolor storybook look, thin dark outlines, orange-gold picture frames, and a gentle rather than frightening mood.
+- The lion's danger should feel urgent but not scary for a young child. The Mouse's rescue is the emotional high point.
+
+## Story arc confirmed by the supplied pages
+
+1. While a Lion sleeps in the forest, a small Mouse runs across his back.
+2. The Lion wakes, catches the Mouse, and considers swallowing him.
+3. The Mouse begs to be released and promises to help someday.
+4. The Lion laughs, but kindly lets the Mouse go.
+5. Hunters later trap the Lion with ropes and tie him to a tree.
+6. The Mouse finds him, gnaws through the ropes, and frees him.
+7. The Mouse reminds the Lion that little friends can do great things.
+
+## Adaptation guardrails
+
+- Generate original illustrations from the photos as references; never use phone-photo crops as the finished device art.
+- Preserve continuity: Lion = warm golden brown with dark mane; Mouse = tiny gray mouse in red jacket; quiet leafy forest with pink flowers.
+- Device art target: 320×240 landscape, no printed text inside artwork.
+- Narration should be warm and clear for Grace, with a gentle suspense beat at the trapped-lion scene and a joyful resolution.
+- Central lesson: size does not measure kindness, courage, or a person's ability to help.
+
+## Remaining source material needed for a complete page-by-page package
+
+- Any unphotographed intermediate pages and their printed captions
+- Author/publisher information, if the final package should include a source credit
+- Language choice: English only or an additional Spanish version

projects/grace-lion-and-mouse/captions_extracted.json

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+{
+  "book_id": "grace-lion-and-mouse",
+  "title": "The Lion and the Mouse",
+  "source_status": "partial sequence: cover plus seven photographed story pages, including printed page 24",
+  "captions": [
+    {"sequence": 1, "text": "Once while a Lion was sleeping, a little Mouse ran up and down his back."},
+    {"sequence": 2, "text": "Soon the Lion woke up. He put his big paw on the Mouse. He opened his big jaws to swallow him."},
+    {"sequence": 3, "text": "The Mouse begged the Lion to let him go. He promised to help the Lion some day."},
+    {"sequence": 4, "text": "The Lion laughed at the thought of a little Mouse helping a great Lion. But he lifted his paw and he let the Mouse go."},
+    {"sequence": 5, "text": "Not long after the Mouse saw the Lion tied to a tree. The Lion had been trapped by some hunters."},
+    {"sequence": 6, "text": "The little Mouse went up to the great Lion and he gnawed right through the ropes. Soon the Lion was free."},
+    {"page": 24, "text": "\"Wasn't I right?\" said the little Mouse to the Lion. \"Little friends can do great things.\""}
+  ]
+}