Overview

Deep in the woods was a little wooden house with nine neat windows and a red front door. When a little mouse decides it will make the perfect home, so do the other animals in the wood–including a great big bear!

But will the bear be able to put everything right when their home comes tumbling down? Find out in this beautifully illustrated retelling of a classic Russian folk tale, now available in a miniature gift edition.

Review:

“A vibrant modern retelling of a classic Russian folk tale…Rendered in electric hues…like a delectable candy box… There is a lesson here — about friendship, and sharing — but the book never feels plodding or pedantic. Its rhythms are as surprising as its vivid hues, full of small but powerful subversions of kid-lit logic: The animals show up in bunches, not page by page… What’s more, there are no grown-ups here. The animals are peers: They create their own society, and resolve their own conflict. Which may be why the lesson just goes down like the truth.”

Hardcover: 32 pages

ISBN: 9781786030894

Dimensions: 20.8 x 0.9 x 14.8 cm

Written by: Christopher Corr

About the author:

Christopher Corr is an established author/illustrator whose many books have won him international acclaim. He studied at the Royal College of Art, and now lives and works in London as an artist and tutor at Goldsmiths University.