Mousewife

Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot--and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can't imagine. "I think about cheese," he advises her. "Why don't you think about cheese?"
Then an odd and exotic new creature, a turtledove, is brought into the house, and the mousewife is fascinated. The mousewife makes friends with the strange dove, who is kept in a cage but who tells her about things no housemouse has ever imagined, blue skies, tumbling clouds, tall trees, and far horizons, the memory of which haunt the dove in his captivity. The dove's tales fill the mousewife with wonder and drive her to take daring action.
Rumer Godden's lovely fable about the unexpected ways in which dreams can come true is illustrated with beautiful pen-and-ink drawings by William Pene du Bois.

ISBN 1590173104   Pages 43 ISBN13 9781590173107 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc   Weight (grammes) 209 Imprint The New York Review Children's Collection   Published in New York Format Hardback   Height (mm) 217 Publication date 25 Oct 2010   Width (mm) 148 Illustrator William Pene Du Bois   Spine width (mm) 10 Library of Congress 2008024715   Academic level Children DEWEY FIC

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