Miss Renee's Mice Go to an Exhibition - Hardcover

Elizabeth Stokes Hoffman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892725818 ISBN 13: 9780892725816

Publisher: Down East Books, 2003

Synopsis

When Miss Renee's mice learn that she is going to an exhibition and sale of dollhouse miniatures, they pester and pester until Miss Renee finally agrees to bring them along - but only after they promise to behave themselves.  "Even sensible people can be scared of mice," explains Miss Renee, "and if people are scared, they won't buy any of my little tables or chairs or rugs." She instructs the mice to stay perfectly still so they will appear to be toy mice sitting on the tiny furniture in her miniature houses.  At the show, everything goes splendidly at first, but then Miss Renee realizes that the adorable "toy" mice are attracting all the attention, and nobody is buying her miniatures.  Feeling miffed, she refuses to share her peanut butter sandwich with the mice, and when her wee assistants start behaving like normal, hungry, live mice, the result is chaos!

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth Stokes Hoffman is a children's book author who lives in Vermont.  Dawn Peterson ia an artist and designer who lives in Falmouth, Maine.

Reviews

Kindergarten-Grade 2--In this follow-up to Miss Renée's Mice(Down East, 2001), Hoffman has spun another amusing tale. Here, the mice accompany the eccentric miniature maker to a dollhouse exhibition in Portland, ME. At first Miss Renée is reluctant to take them along, but relents when she recalls how they helped her to build some of her tiny furniture. She tells them they must pretend to be toy mice, so her customers will not be scared away. Rather than being afraid, the customers are so enchanted by the "toy" mice that they are more interested in buying them than the miniatures. By lunchtime, Miss Renée is fed up with all the attention that they are receiving and spitefully refuses to share her peanut-butter sandwich. The little creatures, overwhelmed by hunger, leap from their chairs and converge on a waiter who is crossing the room with a tray of delectable desserts, causing pandemonium in the exhibition hall. In the end, a wealthy woman who is hiding her own pet mice in the pockets of her coat offers to buy all of Miss Renée's merchandise and invites her to tea in the hotel dining room, where the two new friends and the rodents enjoy a delicious feast. Peterson's illustrations delightfully capture the old-fashioned feeling of the New England setting and portray the mice with appealing detail. Young dollhouse fans will enjoy this fanciful adventure.--Linda L. Walkins, Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Brighton, MA
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Edition details

• Publisher: Down East Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0892725818
• ISBN 13: 9780892725816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Dawn Peterson
• Number of pages: 32