The+Bookstore+Mouse

=The Bookstore Mouse= By Peggy Christian copyright 1995 The Bookstore Mouse is a book about a simple mouse, Cervantes, who reads dictionaries and eats cookbooks. Cervantes dislikes the hungry cat Milo. One day Cervantes falls down the shelves of a bookcase where he starts to read a book. He "falls into",the book and starts interacting with all the people in the book. Cervantes meets Sigfried. Sigfried is a scribe who always is lost for words and is ready for adventure. While Sigfried is working a young boy delivers a note. The note is badly damaged from the rain and all the key sections are gone. Sigfried and Cervantes guess what the words are. They think the note says that a town is held hostage by a ogre. Sigfried and Cervantes go on a misson to save the people of that town and slay the ogre.

The climactic point of the book is when Sigfried faces the dragon and the ogre. Sigfried wins and is a hero. I would not recommend this book to anyone in the 7th grade let alone in the 4th. The author uses the same metaphores, cliches, and similes over and over and over. Peggy Christian doesn't start the actual plot of the book until around page 70, which isn't always bad but for a double-spaced 134 paged book it is outrageous. I think the writing could be understood by an infant and the plot was just boring. The writing in this book was not on 7th grade level and should not be read by anyone. On a rate from one to ten I would give it a 1.5 at most. It uses the cliche tale of the young boy who wants to be a knight. I also think that the book wasn't clear enough on why Sigfried wanted to be a knight. I also think that the way Cervantes "fell into" the book was not well thought out and weird.