This year has been a big one for mice. Not only did they move into my kitchen towel drawer, but they infested children's books as well. One of my all-time-favorite children's books as a fourth grader was
The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper by Jan Van Leeuwen, about some rodents that moved into Macy's department store for the winter. Many well-known authors continued the tradition of great mouse tails, er tales, this year. In the most recent edition of
Hornbook magazine, author Richard Peck mentions
Stuart Little by E. B. White as an inspiration for a sequel for his new book,
Secrets at Sea. Other mouse-y books recently published include:
Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt (a mouse finding his way home),
Bless this Mouse (church mice surviving extermination) by Lois Lowry, and
The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale (mystery in London) by Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright. Whether underneath your favorite quilt or in your favorite reading nook, enjoy those mice - who are so endearing and enjoyable in our books, yet so troublesome in our walls. -Elaine B.
This year has been a big one for mice. Not only did they move into my kitchen towel drawer, but they infested children's books as well. One of my all-time-favorite children's books as a fourth grader was The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper by Jan Van Leeuwen, about some rodents that moved into Macy's department store for the winter. Many well-known authors continued the tradition of great mouse tails, er tales, this year. In the most recent edition of Hornbook magazine, author Richard Peck mentions Stuart Little by E. B. White as an inspiration for a sequel for his new book, Secrets at Sea. Other mouse-y books recently published include: Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt (a mouse finding his way home), Bless this Mouse (church mice surviving extermination) by Lois Lowry, and The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale (mystery in London) by Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright. Whether underneath your favorite quilt or in your favorite reading nook, enjoy those mice - who are so endearing and enjoyable in our books, yet so troublesome in our walls. -Elaine B. 
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