Kids into books: A Mouse Called Wolf
Author: Dick King-Smith
Illustrator: Alex de Wolf
Publisher: Random House, $12.95
Age Group: 7-9 years
In this hole lived the mother mouse (whose own name was Mary).
One night, just before her babies were born, Mary waited until the lady of the house had played a final tune on the piano and gone to bed. then she came out of the hole in the wainscot.
She ran up the left front leg and on to the keyboard which had as usual been left open, and bounced along over the keys. But even though heavy with young, she was still much too light to make any nose.
Then she saw, left lying on the piano-stool, a single sheet of music.
"Just what I need to start making my nest with," said Mary Mouse, and by pushing at the sheet (a piece of piano music by Mozart) with her little forepaws, she managed to send it sailing down to the floor.
<i>Kids into books:</i> A Mouse Called Wolf
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