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Mice Are Nice
June 20th, 2008
Babymouse... The Mouse Guard... lea11k at Library Voice relates the hilarious tale of an enraged, muriphobic mom demanding to know what's the deal with all the mice?
What I want to know is, where's this mom been for the past 50 years? Lea mentions Stuart Little and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as other examples of mouse-centric classics, but that's just the tip of the iceberg! What about...
- Redwall?
- Poppy?
- A Cricket in Times Square?
- Geronimo Stilton?
- The Bookstore Mouse?
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH?
- The Mouse and His Child?
- Deptford Mice?
- Spy Mice?
- Jean Van Leeuwen's books about the mice who live in Macy's?
And that's not even touching the gazillion picture books about the bright-eyed little critters...
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What was the one by Beverly Cleary with the mouse on the motorcycle?
I'm pretty sure there are books about roaches and snakes (Verdi, at the very least).
Ralph S. Mouse! You're totally right--that's another 3 books right there!
And yes, there are at least a handful of snake heroes in picture books: Verdi, as you mentioned, Crictor, Snake of the Turtle and Snake series...
As for roaches, you're right again. How about Wilky the White House Cockroach, Maybelle in the Soup, and the Underland Chronicles? Yet somehow I haven't heard of a surge in roach-befriending...