The Mice Who Lived in a Shoe
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Cover Story
Our cover this issue features Tucker and Co., Phil Redmond, Fontana Lions, 0 00 6701 27 X, 85p.
It is also available in hardback from BBC Publications, 0 563 20053 7, £4.50 in March. We are grateful for help from Fontana in putting the book on our cover in full colour. Cover photos, by Douglas Playle, show Todd Carty, Erkan Mustafa, Nadia Chambers, Lee MacDonald, Lee Sparke, Paula Taras and Alison Vettles.
The Mice Who Lived in a Shoe
The practicalities of living in a shoe are explored in Rodney Pepp$e's new book: A family of mice - fed up with being too wet, cold or hot, or blown about, not to mention pestered by a large tabby - decides to convert their old shoe into a dream house. The family sets to work and the construction project is shown stage by stage through the book. Each illustration is almost overrun with busy mice working, playing and talking (in speech bubbles) together so that the reader will find as much, if not more, to read in the pictures as in the text. This story, and in particular the idea of building a dream home oneself, has really fired the imagination of the children with whom I have shared the book.