It’s little Astrid’s first day at Maple Street Mouse School and the day starts with her new classmates telling her about themselves.
Brie lives at Truckles, the cheese shop; Huck’s parents look after the street’s tunnels from underneath the hardware shop; and Baxter’s family run a café serving the yummiest crumbs. When Astrid tells them about her family, how her mum is an astromouse and how Astrid and her dad love to swim in tropical lagoons, Brie calls her a fibber. But Astrid lives under the bookshop and there are different adventures to have every evening.
As word spreads about Astrid’s amazing, adventure-filled home, she gets more and more popular, though her mum has the last word! It’s a lovely story, the little mice are very cute indeed, and what a gorgeous demonstration of the power of reading, of books and bookshops.
Children love miniature worlds and will particularly relish the chance to peep into the little mice shops and houses.
Discover that books can take you places you'd never believe... from Waterstones Prize-shortlisted Robert Starling.
Astrid's family has just moved in to the mouse hole in the bookshop on Maple Street, and none of her new classmates believes the incredible adventures she has with her family. But when she invites each of them to the bookshop, they'll see that there is a big, exciting world of possibilities there, just waiting to be discovered.
Former teacher Robert Starling shows us the incredible places books can take us.
Also by Robert Starling:
Fergal is Fuming
Fergal in a Fix
Fergal and Fern
Fergal and the Fib
The Little Island (written by Smriti Halls)
Rob began doodling creatures and characters at school and hasn't stopped since. He lives and works in Bristol, and when he's not sketching up new characters or writing down stories he can be found sculpting, brewing coffee, adjusting his headphones or foraging in the kitchen for cake. Oh, and teaching kids. Fergal is Fuming is his first book.
