The School Mouse Review

 

The School Mouse Review

I just finished reading this book to David tonight. I know it is a little young for him age wise.
In previous post I have mentioned David's learning disability and so this is actually at his reading level. This book is Bekah's which she received from her teachers in 2002. I can't remember which grade she was in.
This book is about a mouse who lives in a school. The mouse's name is Flora. She decides that she wants to learn to read. So she hides and starts watching the children being taught by their teachers. The words start making sense when pictures are involved. Like when Helen Keller learn what her teacher was signing when the water poured over her hands from the pump.
Her knowledge saves her life and her parents live one day.
Each quarter she decides she has learned enough from a certain grade level and decides to move up.
She meets a pet mouse who has escaped from his master and decides to stay with her.
She teaches him and her parents and youngest sister how to read.
You have to read this book to find out about their adventures in the school.
It was an easy book to read out loud and fun. I think this is a good book for an elementary child to read or one with reading disabilities. This book has mainly a female subject but there is enough male influence for a boy to enjoy also.