It is Christmas Eve, and Mr Mouse and his family return home after buying gifts. The children want to decorate the Christmas tree, but the parents say there isn't time.

A touching tale about a little mouse with a big heart, featuring festive silver foil on every page!

On a snowy winter's night, Mouse is snug in her bed . . . Then—crack!—a tree branch falls and destroys her house. Now Mouse must find a new place to live. With determination, resourcefulness, and some Christmas good fortune, Mouse finds not only another house but also a place she can truly call home.

“Once upon a time there was a little mouse house. It was like a doll’s house, but not for dolls, for mice.” Not proper mice, but a flannel He-Mouse and She-Mouse with beady eyes and bristle whiskers who stand quite still, propped on their hind legs in the sitting room. Mary knows real mice run and scamper, and disappointed with her new gift, she puts the mouse house away in her room. Meanwhile, down in the basement, a real mouse named Bonnie has been jostled out of her woefully inadequate flowerpot home by her older brothers and sisters. Overlooked by her harried parents and desperate for shelter, Bonnie ventures upstairs and finds the mouse house. And before too long what was a miniature make-believe house becomes a marvelously messy home for proper mice who know how to play, much to everyone’s delight.

While the rest of the house is sound asleep, the hardworking mice scurry about to prepare for a festive Christmas day by making snow mice, trimming the tree, and decorating cookies. On board pages.

When a frightened little mouse seeks shelter from a storm, a wonderful adventure begins! The Mouse in the House is a tale of a small creature seeking to hide from the thunder and the rain. Once inside the house, the curious little guy explores every room, finding things he never knew existed. Before long, the mouse realizes he has stumbled upon something so wonderful. Come inside with the mouse and see just how wonderful the house can be!

"First published by Nosy Crow Ltd. (UK) 2020."--Title page verso.