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.