The School Mouse - Hardcover

King-Smith, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786800364 ISBN 13: 9780786800360

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1995

Synopsis

Flora, a young mouse, lives with her family in the cupboard of a kindergarten classroom, and after she teaches herself to read, Flora becomes determined to follow the children into the first grade

About this title

About the Author:

Dick King-Smith was born and raised in Gloucestershire, England, surrounded by pet animals. After twenty years as a farmer, he turned to teaching and then to writing children's books. Dick wrote mostly about animals: farmyard fantasy, as he likes to call it, often about pigs, his special favorites. He enjoyed writing for children, meeting the children who read his books, and knowing that they get enjoyment from what he does. Among his well-loved books are Babe: The Gallant Pig, which was made into a major motion picture and was nominated for an Academy Award.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 4?Charming and satisfying, this story should appeal to many small folks moving from easy readers to chapter books. From a rumpled, rather inept father mouse and a very sharp mother mouse whose efficiency is a bit abrasive to our heroine Flora, each tiny character is engaging. Flora decides early in life to take advantage of her environment. From a safe hiding spot in her first-grade classroom home, she learns to read along with the children. When her siblings go off to make their way in the world, she continues her education. Her acquired skills allow her to warn her family when poison is placed in the school after a careless brother leaves mouse droppings on the head mistress's class register. She meets a handsome white mouse, survives a suitable number of harrowing experiences, and saves her family yet again after they move to an unsafe haystack. Fisher's black-and-white sketches aptly capture the characters' essential mouseness while illuminating their slightly anthropomorphic individuality. King-Smith's many fans, and those brought to the shelves by the movie Babe, won't be disappointed by this well-crafted tale.?Jody McCoy, Casady School, Oklahoma City
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0786800364
• ISBN 13: 9780786800360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128