The Mouse in the Wainscot

by Ian Serraillier

A little girl reflects on the activities of a mouse living in a secluded area of her house. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809244640
• ISBN13: 9780809244645
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 12 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Classic kid's poem

I never met a child who didn't love both mice and poems--provided both were introduced early enough. This 14-page board book serves nicely on both scores. The classic short poem (75 words or so) is broken into seven pages, with darling multicolored illustrations by Giora Carmi opposite each pair or quartet of lines.It's also a nice bed-time story.The poem opens as Suzanne is told not to lift her cup: "That breath you heard/ Is a mouse getting up."It closes with this delight, right up there, if you ask me, with Goodnight Moon:"O falling of feather!O drift of leaf!The mouse in the wainscotIs dropping asleep." Alyssa A. Lappen