Greymouse: The Bravest Mouse Ever

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Find out if you're the bravest of the brave! It's easy to forget that this is a book about numbers when you look at the detailed pictures! Spend some time with the animals at this water hole. Count backwards from ten in this book about bedtime.

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Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3. The letters can't have all of the fun!

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This time the numbers want to climb to the top of the tree. Will they all make it? Write a customer review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. This is a picture book of very few words with images that mesmerise.

Greymouse - The Bravest Mouse Ever (Paperback)

I can only marvel at the mystical mastery of Pamella Allen's illustrations. I read it with the young students yo that I teach.

They are enthralled by the bravery of the little grey mouse who is seeking food in the presence of a sleeping ginger cat - a large ginger cat. Apart from being a perfect story to read to pre-schoolers, this is also an excellent book to encourage reluctant young readers who find the paucity of words comforting and the picture storytelling enchanting.

Look for similar items by category. The story is a great advance in making the animal, as well as the moral, interesting ; one feels that this mouse of the eighteenth century is speaking across the gap in time in appropriate words: If a human soul could enter a mouse body, this is what it might have felt like.

The reader is moved never to set a mouse trap — as Anna Sewell moved her contemporaries against the bearing rein. Of course, Aesop was hugely influential in giving us the animal personality traits which are either utilised or inverted by modern storytellers. It seems to be a self-published book. The story is illustrated by Kate Greenaway, who you will definitely have heard of, owing to the award. The Midnight Folk by John Masefield There is a strong feeling in this book of animals and toys, all smaller than real, taking a stand against People, and of course the mice are on the right side; they are seldom evil characters.

Hunca Munca and Tom Thumb are merely amoral.

Beneath their charming clothes the mouse bodies are there, anatomically correct in every detail, with all the most pleasing mouse qualities and none of the messy ones. They are frugal, particular, busy: Mrs Tittlemouse sleeps in a tiny box bed with her tiny shoes, brush and pan ranged beside her, and all the other rooms and passages that are invaded so annoyingly by stray insects, bees, spiders and beetles, are part of the bottom of a hedgerow, and as real as all the other lairs, holes and burrows that Beatrix Potter drew.

One can learn how fieldmice live by reading Mrs Tittlemouse, but there is little room for personality; smallness is all.

Johnny Town Mouse is more a story about different types of mice than different kinds of human. Johnny Town Mouse — in dark coat, and bowler hat — and Timmy Willie unclothed are house- and fieldmouse, moving to stay with each other by means of a vegetable hamper problems of transport in mouse societies are considerable.

Town society is shown to be noisy, dangerous and given to what is now called Conspicuous Waste: Otherwise these two disgraceful animals wreak havoc in Mouse fashion with the help of human hands and bad temper. Mickey is a character of the screen rather than of the page, but like any of the Disney characters, we also find Mickey Mouse picture books dotted around bookshelves. He is one of the few humanised animals with any sort of sex life; he and Minnie behave like a suburban couple with a stylised, jerky immutability. They are the Little Man and Little Woman pursued by forces bigger than both of them, always triumphing over their adversities as little men and younger sons should — the audience anaesthetised to violence because it is happening to a mouse who is not only their representative but an unlikely, mechanised robot figure whose human attributes are thus given armour-plating.

Mechanised behaviour is a common way of making a comic character funny. We see an adult example in Roy of The I. There are plenty of mice in this series, full of Beatrix Potter-like species dressed up in clothes, living in a Victorian era. Dressed in clothes of the era to and nearly always with shoes that were too large to show off the greatest area of shine? They had the elongated, rather human faces that Beatrix Potter would never have drawn; and yet they are not by any means caricatures.

Drawing of wild flowes, moths, leaves, insects and other animals is impeccable and beautiful and the stories have a slightly romantic element quite lacking in Beatrix Potter. Ernest Aris let his mice leave home to seek their fortunes, or a mysterious Good Fairy, or let them be enticed into a dark wood by a stag beetle bent on vengeance — menacingly and accurately drawn but not in the right decade to be the one that frightened C. Lewis as a child. Back in Robert Lawson had written Ben and Me , a life of Benjamin Franklin as told by his mouse Amos, to whom Ben seems to have been indebted for some of his brightest ideas.

In a way, Stuart Little can be seen as an allegory for disability. In the house, everything is a challenge for him, due to his small size. He has to develop devices for turning on taps and so on. Stuart is not only a mouse; he is also the child of a human famly. The book is a funny one with serious undertones. The comedy is partly Lilliputian, as when Stuart takes the helm of a model yacht in a race on the pond, and partly derived from a deadpan presentation of the absurd:.

The doctor was delighted with Stuart and said that it was very unusual for an American family to have a mouse […] Everything seemed to be all right, and Mrs Little was pleased to get such a good report. But the story ends in what appears to be midstream, with Stuart searching for the vanihsed bird Margalo whom he loves. Stuart Little is a good example of a mouse story which is not kind to cats.

The cat character, Snowball, is a bully and a sneak. Garth Williams did a great job of drawing the mice, in which no two characters look the same.

Many are drawn from a human point of view showing Stuart as a minute dot. Reepicheep was one of the Talking Mice of Narnia, and was their leader. His second-in-command was Peepiceek. Although Reepicheep is described as over a foot high, he is small — always the joke when it comes to mouse characters — and their personalities are in direct opposition to this. They overcome impossible odds and have huge hearts.

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Here, too, the mice have oversized courage and high self-esteem. And at the end of the book, Reepicheep even answers Aslan back. No other animal could bring themselves to do that. A variety of huge creatures get into a boat but it only sinks after a mouse jumps in.

Mice are tiny but they are influential. Mice are the most badass race, and the only race that gets a racial storyline of its own. All other races of talking animals are given speech as a divine gift at the dawn of time. The mice, however, are so small and insignificant that they are overlooked by Aslan himself. Moving on to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , the mice earn their rank among the ascended animals by making a heroic attempt at Save Your Deity.

In that story, mice chew off the ropes that bind the corpse of Aslan. As a result, mice are promoted to that rank of talking animal, and many years latter the mice are considered among the most brave and honorable of all the animals.

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