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

After breakfast, Pete sat in his tree-house, thinking. It was Saturday and, for Pete, Saturday was Mouseday.

At breakfast every Saturday, regular as clockwork, he asked his mum and dad if he could have what he most wanted in all the world a white mouse with pink eyes. But the answers were always the same.

"No!" his mother said. "I'm scared of mice."