The Horn Book Guide

YOUNGER FICTION

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Tom Mouse

40 pp. March, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-7613-1599-3 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-7613-2663-4 $$22.90

(2) 1-3 Illustrated by Julie Downing. When Tom, a mouse with wanderlust, boards a train, an old woman finds him in her room and becomes his traveling companion. The illustrations are from Tom's perspective, from his lowly vantage point on the floor of the closet or caught in the rush of human feet. Told in four brief chapters, this quiet tale of comradeship between two previously lonely globetrotters has an inviting freshness.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2002