The Tales of Mr. Mouse – Meet the Children

First, you met Mr Mouse and his friends Frog and Bee in the wonderful storybook The Tales of Mr Mouse and Friends by Jacqueline Mead. Now meet his children. Mr Mouse met his match in the first book (Chapter 5, Mr Mouse Meets his Match) Mr Mouse and Hilda married and had 12 children: 11 sons and a daughter. In the first book, you met the children briefly as they got into trouble on a day out on a raft (Chapter 10 Coastguards Save the Day). This book introduces each child, through the use of adjectives we learn that Fletcher is fun and fast, Brian is brave and brainy. We learn their favourite thing to do and their favourite colour. Hidden in each picture are three objects for your child to find. Each illustration brings to life the child as we see Iain invent a robot and Edgar measuring a very large egg. Enjoy this book with your child as they learn new words, fall in love with the children and have fun too. In the next adventure book the children will have their own story to tell, meet the children now but hold on tight, things are going to get a lot more fun.

Jacqueline Mead is a children’s author from Devon, England. Born in Plymouth, for the last twenty years she has been living with her family in Exeter, Devon. She wrote her first children’s book at the age of 56. It was based on a story that she made up for her own children at bedtime. She has been married for 39 years and has three children and five grandchildren. She continues to share her love of books and stories with her grandchildren, aged between one and fifteen years old. She tries out her new manuscripts on her children and older grandchildren.