Shortlisted for the Nestle Children's Award 2006 in the 6-8 category.
When you are a mouse hearing that mouse noses on toast is being served at a local restaurant can be quite disturbing. Perhaps it’s a joke or a myth.
So begins an adventure to find the truth involving mouse activists, the prime minister and cheese addicts. But will they survive with their whiskers intact?
Gathering his friends - Sandra, Rowley Barker Hobbs, the sheepdog, and the Tinby, a kind of monster - Paul becomes determined to find the truth behind the mouse noses on toast. But what awaits them all at the mouse noses abbatoir?
Daren King was born in Harlow, Essex. His debut novel, Boxy an Star, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. He has written two other novels for adults, Jim Giraffe and Tom Boler, and a novel for children, Mouse Noses on Toast.