Kids into books: A Mouse Called Wolf

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


Because it was too big to drag through the mousehole, she cut it up with her sharp teeth into smaller pieces, and pulled them all inside.

Over the next day, Mary chewed these small pieces of paper into shreds, and with them built herself a most comfortable nest.

In this, in due course, she gave birth to her thirteen cubs. Only when they were some days old and she still had not thought up a special name for the littlest, did something catch Mary's eye.

It was a scrap of the sheet music that had somehow escaped being chewed up, and it had some writing on it.

Mary got out of her nest to inspect it. It said: Wolfgang Amadeus Mo.

Mary gave a squeak of delight. "Perfect!" she cried to all the blind and naked cubs, and then softly she whispered in the littlest one's ear, "This name was specially designed for you, dear, I feel it in my bones."