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Two Christmas Mice

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My daughter and I came across The Christmas Mice at the bookstore and were attracted by its merry cover. We sat right down and read it together and immediately bought a copy for her and three for my daughters's best friends. We loved how these two snowbound mice find ways to entertain themselves and we were charmed with the way they find each other and become friends. The story is full of imagination and smiles -- a delight.

Every year my family goes to the bookstore and selects a book to add to our Christmas Book collection. This year we all agreed that Two Christmas Mice was the one. We loved the illustrations! My little brother doesn't read yet, but he is really good at telling the story using the pictures. I think your family will enjoy this book as much as mine does!

This is a really cool Christmas book. I love how the pictures make the story come to life. Everyone should read this book about friendship and sharing the Christmas spirit!

This delightful story appeals to youngsters and adults. We used it on Yuletide to encourage interest on tours of a historical home. I read it to a 5 year old prior to the visit and he looked for the charming mice in each room with squealing delight!

Possibly from first hand knowledge living in New England, Corinne writes of two charming snow-bound field mice and how they entertain themselves in getting ready for Christmas. Both are alone and unable to get out for things they need to complete their holiday celebrations but with spunk and ingenuity, they do the best they can. Little do they know that they are only a short dig away from a new friendship.

Annamouse and Willamouse are written with warmth and reality so readers will feel like they are in their little dens with them experiencing Christmas Eve. The description of how they would normally go out and sing carols to the rabbits, who Annamouse tells us "can't sing at all", and to the squirrels who "can never remember the words" according to Willamouse, creates a world that children will feel right at home in. With her lovingly descriptive language, Corinne Demas writes a clever, humorous tale of a coincidence that brings two mice together for what one can tell will be a long and happy friendship.

I adored this book and look forward to a soon-to-be-here first grandchild that I can share it with. In a "Behind the Scenes" look at the making of this book on Corinne Demas's current website, the idea and first version if this book is explained lovingly and thus allows us to understand even more why this is a beautiful book for children of all ages. Adults can't help but smile at the reference to the favorite composer of the mice, "Mouzart" or the attention to detail of things like a tray of sushi on the dining table.

Corinne writes, "I wrote an early version of Two Christmas Mice in 1991 as a Christmas present for my goddaughter, Hadley. I typed out the text, and my six-year-old daughter and I worked on the illustrations together, using colored markers. We made our illustration for the page showing the two mice in their separate-but-nearby holes, just before they discover each other."

"We made a book by punching holes along the side of the paper and sewing the pages together with red ribbon. Years later, I re-wrote the story, and my agent sent it to Holiday House. Now, fourteen Christmases later, I can give Hadley a present of the published book."

So if that doesn't tell you that this is a book that came straight from Corinne Demas' heart, I am not sure what will. Along with the gorgeous illustrations by Stephanie Roth, this makes THE PERFECT holiday gift for all the little ones on your list!