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Synopsis
He lives in a bookstore behind a large WALL OF WORDS.
He eats DELICIOUS WORDS from recipes.
He throws SHARP WORDS and POINTED REMARKS at his enemy.
And one day he slips through the words into a story that is the greatest adventure of his life.
He is THE BOOKSTORE MOUSE.
A clever and wise fable, this tale is for every book lover, every story lover, and every lover of words.
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PEGGY CHRISTIAN has been a reading specialist, a bookstore manager, a teacher of language arts and writing, and the author of the picture book If You Find a Rock. She lives in Missoula, Montana.
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Grade 4-6?This witty fantasy's creative use of wordplay is reminiscent of Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth (Knopf, 1972). Cervantes, the mouse inhabitant of an antiquarian bookstore, literally lives on words. His home lies behind the books in the reference section, and he eats delicious-sounding terms peeled out of cookbooks. His favorite activity is finding verbal ways to torment the resident cat. One day, Cervantes's world is disturbed by a human browser and he finds refuge in a beautiful leather-bound volume. Perusing Chapter One, the mouse makes two astonishing discoveries. First, when words are strung together, they make a story?and, strangely, this realization is a key that allows him to take part in the story he now reads. Transported to a medieval English monastery, he meets and has an adventure with Sigfried, a young scribe with a poor vocabulary. Along the way, both of them learn much about the real meaning of words. Cervantes is a charming narrator. While Sigfried is likable, his habit of substituting terms like "whosits" and "dingus-whatsit" for words he doesn't know does become annoying. Still, the tale is enjoyable, and will inspire young readers to think carefully about their own use of vocabulary.?Mary Jo Drungil, Niles Public Library District, IL
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- PublisherClarion Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0152045643
- ISBN 13 9780152045647
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
- IllustratorLippincott Gary A.
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