Nursery World - EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Mouse House

by John Burningham (Jonathan Cape, 2017)

Mouse House is an interesting story by John Burningham, who has a great track record of creating picture books – and was this year awarded the BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award.

The story is about a human family who are unwittingly sharing their house with a large family of mice. All is well, until one day a child spots a mouse. The parents swing into action and phone for a mouse-catcher. The children, however, have different ideas and write a warning note to the mouse family.

There is a sad scene of the mice leaving the house with their suitcases. Later on the children see the mice children playing in the garden and start to make things for them. As the seasons change, the mice disappear, leaving the children disappointed. The story has a happy ending, though. The mice return and although once more are spotted by the boy, he says nothing.

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