Kids into books - Happy Mouseday

This week's title: Happy Mouseday

Author: Dick King-Smith

Publisher: Random House $11.95

Illustrator: Peter Kavanagh

Age group: 6-9 years


"No!" his father said. "They smell."

"Why can't you get it into your head, Pete," one or other or both of them would say, "that you are not keeping a mouse in this house? Ever!"

So every Saturday, after breakfast, Pete would climb up into his tree-house, thinking ... It's no use, they'll never let me, but I'll keep on trying anyway.