Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler

A California Young Reader Medal Winner
A Texas Bluebonnet Master List Selection
A Bank Street Children's Book Committee Outstanding Children's Book of the Year
A Book Links Lasting Connection

In this award-winning, delightful lost (and found) classic, one mouse searches for a home to call his own.

Though his life begins "in a commonplace way," Christopher Mouse is not the least bit common. From his birth in an ordinary wire cage to his close encounter with a large cat in the Egyptian room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christopher proves an adventurer of the most intrepid sort--and a budding poet as well.

Through the force of will and good luck, this rather extraordinary mouse finds his own small way in a very large world.

William Wise is the author of many books for children, including the picture books Ten Sly Piranhas and Dinosaurs Forever and the novel Nell of Branford Hall. He lives in New York City.

Patrick Benson won the Mother Goose Award for his illustration of William Mayne's Hob Stories. He has illustrated more than twenty books, including Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and Mole and the Baby Bird by Marjorie Newman, a Christopher Award winner.