Bless This Mouse by Lois Lowry (9780547390093)

Description - Bless This Mouse by Lois Lowry

A resilient and quirky colony of church mice fears another Great X more than they fear cats. Under Mouse Mistress Hildegarde's leadership, they save themselves from one danger after another-sometimes just by the skin of their tails! Can one ultimate act of bravery during the feast day of St. Francis get Father Murphy to bless these mice and keep them safe forever? Rife with humor and personality, this young middle-grade novel has an old-fashioned feel with the makings of a modern classic. AGES: 9 to 12 AUTHOR: Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels,'Number the Stars' and 'The Giver'. Her first novel, 'A Summer to Die', was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Eric Rohmann won a Caldecott Honor Book award for 'Time Flies', and a Caldecott Medal award for 'My Friend Rabbit'., and has written four children's books: 'My Friend Rabbit', 'The Cinder-Eyed Cats', 'Pumpkinhead', and 'A Kitten's Tale'. Illustrated

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