The Sleepy Dormouse

by Mark Ezra

Book Overview

The field mice try to thwart Scraggly Sam the weasel's plan to make a tasty meal out of a sleepy dormouse. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566561531
• ISBN13: 9781566561532
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Crocodile Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 3 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Charming woodland story with gorgeous illustrations

My preschooler loves animal stories, especially if the animals concerned are furry and adorable. In "The Sleepy Dormouse", a young dormouse sleeps on, curled up in his nest, oblivious to everything else. One day, a weasel called Scraggly Sam comes by and takes the dormouse with him, intending to eat him for supper. Finding the dormouse rather undernourished, Sam proceeds to fatten him up under a flowerpot. Fortunately for the naive dormouse, a group of kind-hearted harvest mice come along to rescue him. The story is charming, but what truly makes this book a perfect read-aloud is the beautiful manner in which it is illustrated - gorgeous full-color illustrations of the woodland creatures add a lot of liveliness to the text, and make this an engaging story. Sadly it is out of print, but I intend getting a used copy to add to our ever expanding home library of children's books!