Tara's Mousey and Ratty Picks

Our theme this week is a celebration of some really radical rodents (try saying that three times fast)!

Picture Book

Rastamouse and the Crucial Plan – Michael De Souza & Genevieve Webster

All the cheese in Mouseland has disappeared, leaving the baby mice at the orphanage starving. The thieving must be stopped. So the president calls in Rastamouse, Scratchy and Zoomer of the Easy Crew.

Told in rhyme with a Jamaican rhythm and bright fun colours, Rastamouse and the Crucial Plan is an unusual and fresh picture book with a great moral – everyone can change for the better!


Developing Readers

The Witches – Roald Dahl

A boy and his grandmamma have to rid the world of witches, but when they catch him spying on their conference, the boy gets turned into a mouse! How will he manage to defeat them now?

One of Dahl’s best books – The Witches is tense and exciting throughout.

Stuart Little – E.B. White

Stuart Little lives with his parents and his brother in New York City, but he’s no ordinary boy – he looks and acts very much like a mouse! His adventures include a sailboat race on Central Park pond, and going in search of his missing friend Margalo.

A sweet and humorous book, by the author of Charlotte’s Web.



Confident Readers

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graham

One of the all-time greats. Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad really need no introduction. But for anyone reading this book for the first time, when Mole decides to leave his spring cleaning and ends up by the river, he meets a host of new friends, and has some tremendous adventures!


Older Readers

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C. O’Brian

When Mrs Frisby, a field mouse, has to leave her home, she gets some unexpected help from the rats of NIMH, super-intelligent rodents. But Nicodemus and his comrades have a secret history, which involves Mrs Frisby’s late husband.

This is an engrossing and thrilling novel, which will stay in your mind long after you finish it.