CM Magazine: There's a Mouse in My House!

________________ CM . . . . Volume IV Number 11 . . . . January 30, 1998

cover There's a Mouse in My House!
Sheree Fitch. Illustrated by Leslie Elizabeth Watts.
Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1997.
32pp., hardcover, $18.95.
ISBN 0-385-25561-6.
Subject Headings:
Children's poetry, Canadian (English).
Mice-Juvenile poetry.
Storytelling-Juvenile poetry
Preschool - grade 5 / Ages 4 - 10.
Review by Elizabeth Buckland.
*** /4

excerpt:

There was a mouse in our house
I guess it came in from the cold
My mother got hysterical
(And SHE'S thirty-six years old!)

Never have I witnessed
Such behavior in my life
Coming from my mother
(She's a teacher and a wife)

She yelled she screamed she hollered
She jumped upon the bed
"CALL ME WHEN IT'S GONE
WHEN IT'S KAPUT, WHEN IT IS DEAD!"

In the hilarious, nonsensical verse Sheree Fitch is best known and loved for, There's a Mouse in my House! tells the story of a brave young mouse who works her way into a boy's heart and house by telling heart-wrenching stories about the trials and travels she and her mother have endured in searching for a permanent home. The story is highlighted by the wonderful, larger-than-life illustrations of Leslie Elizabeth Watts.

Highly recommended.

Elizabeth Buckland.

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Published by
The Manitoba Library Association
ISSN 1201-9364

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS ISSUE - JANUARY 30, 1998.