TO HOUSE A MOUSEAuthor: Caleb Miller
No matter what stage in life a reader is in, he or she will find this story close to the heart. Parents, use these words as a tool to discuss the themes that intermingle the lines of literature and real life with your children – themes that will grow with your child. To House a Mouse by author Caleb Miller and illustrator Merrick Bronzini is a beautiful story that depicts people lost in some phase of their life, who are bitter towards others because of it, and through their actions is unveiled a life lesson that we all could learn from.
As readers leaf through the pages of this picture book, they will meet a mouse, the lowliest of the creatures, who finds himself waylaid in a foreboding place, one that neither welcomes him nor wishes for his presence: the home of humans. The mouse – even by staying quiet and taking only the unwanted scraps from the family – has earned the ire of the father of the home in particular, and the mouse’s sneaky aptitude to living in this way angers the man to no end. He is caught between the fire and the smoke, however, for as it is, not even the outside world from where he came wants him back. His only hope is to stay quiet.
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