Saturday, May 26, 2012

The tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse


Year: 1910


Age: 7 and above

No. of Pages: 58

Website: Peterrabbit.com

ISBN: 978-0-72324-780-7

I read this book for my kids and I was reminded of those magical, good old days of reading Enid Blyton and watching Wind in the Willows on the television.

Meet Mrs. Tittlemouse, a very tidy wood mouse who takes pride in her well-kept home. Her tidy home, however, invites a lot of unwelcome attention from untidy and uninvited visitors: beetles, ladybirds, spiders. She gets rid of all of them quite unceremoniously. Until, she meets her match in Mr. Jackson, a toad who enjoys visiting Mrs. Tittlemouse, uninvited, of course. She tries her best to get rid of him without much success. That is, until she hits upon a brilliant solution.

Excerpt

The he squeezed into the larder. Miss Butterfly was tasting the sugar; but she flew away out of the window.

“Tiddly, widdly, widdly, Mrs. Tittlemouse; you seem to have plenty of visitors!”

“And without any invitation!” said Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse.

They went along the sandy passage – “Tiddly widdly – “Buss! Wizz! Wizz!”

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