Mini Grey (Jonathan Cape) A new Mini Grey picturebook is always cause for celebration and Hermelin the Detective Mouse is no exception. Hermelin the mouse is a brilliant detective and is on a mission to help the residents of Offley Street when things begin to go missing. But will it be welcome with open arms as …
Catalina Echeverri (Jonathan Cape) Lion and Mouse are the best of friends, who do everything together. But Lion thinks he is better than Mouse in every way, and spends a lot of time boasting about it. When Mouse finally has enough and disappears, Lion does not even notice at first. Until he needs Mouse’s help, …
Tracey Corderoy, with artwork by Hannah Whitty(Scholastic) It’s Riley the Mouse’s birthday today. He can’t wait for his party and have lots of fun with best friends Starla the Badger and Horatio the Hedgehog. But things don’t quite go to plan when a misunderstanding about a toy boat ends up with Riley and Horatio falling …
The two books I am reviewing today stood out amongst the huge offering of new Christmas books for their more unusual, and yet all the more important, Christmas message. The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse Helen Ward(Templar) Helen Ward’s retelling of the famous Aesop’s Fable is not strictly a Christmas story, but it is 1930s …
Thomas Taylor (text) & Jill Barton (illustrations)(Boxer Books) Little Mouse comes across a yummy-looking chocolate-chip. Raspberry-cream cupcake and quite fancies taking it home. Unfortunately, it is rather large and he can’t carry it all the way back. Enters Bird, Frog, Mole and plenty of others who are all quite keen to help, but more importantly …
Today I am focusing on a few picture books books involving mice and Christmas. Odd combination I’ll hear you say, but one that is nonetheless recurrent!The first two have been favourites in the Library Mice household since my children were little. The third one is another great Little Tiger Press offering for toddlers and the …
Katherine Holabird & Helen Craig(Puffin) My 3 year-old daughter has just started ballet and what better tale to accompany this new experience but this wonderful picture book which is 25 years-old this year! Angelina is a little mouse who loves to dance. She dances at home, at school and even in her dreams! Unfortunately, all …
