They also pay homage to classic stories like Peter Rabbit while down in the mouse’s burrow with his homey furniture and then his baking and soup making in the winter months.Ī simple story, but one that has a wonderful rhythm and poetry to it that moves it to the top of the large pile of seasonal stories. The illustrations celebrate nature and its beauty and variety. Yue’s illustrations also show nature as a place to safely visit and explore. Schertle’s tone invites young readers to take a look at the nature outside their own holes and visit it each day to see the changing seasons. Then he explores, discovering three things in nature to pay attention to. Little mouse leaves his hole the same way no matter what the season, by counting to three and popping out. It captures the natural rhythms by echoing them in the writing. This picture book explores seasons and the changes seasons bring in nature from a gentle and cheerful mouse perspective. He heads right back into his hole and stays there, well fed and warm. In winter snow falls and the little mouse can’t see the grass anymore. In autumn, the little mouse watches geese flying, ants marching, and brings home an acorn to his storeroom which is filling up. He brings a sprig of watercress home each day and adds that to his storeroom.
In the summer, the little mouse watches beavers building a dam in the pond, visits a toad, and sees a porcupine.
And each day he brings home a seed that he stores away in his storeroom. He also sees himself reflected in a puddle. He sees a snail, a woodpecker and buzzing bees. In the spring, he heads out of his home and explores the area around him. Such a Little Mouse by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Stephanie YueĪ little mouse lives in a hole in a meadow under a clump of dandelions.
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