Mouse Bird Snake Wolf

The imagination of three children takes on unexpected life in a creation tale from the dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean.

The gods have created a world that is safe and calm and rather wonderful. They have built mountains, forests, and seas and filled the world with animals, people, and unnamed beasts. Now their days are fat with long naps in the clouds, mutual admiration, and tea and cake. But their world has gaps in it filled with emptiness, gaps that intrigue Harry, Sue, and little Ben until they begin to see what might fill them. One by one the children conjure, from twigs and leaves and stones, a mousy thing, a chirpy thing, and a twisty legless thing. But as the children's ideas grow bolder, the power of their visions proves greater and more dangerous than they, or the gods, could ever have imagined. Is it possible to unmake what's been made?

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 05/14/2013
ISBN: 9780763659127
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.70w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/25/2013
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2013
School Library Journal 05/01/2013 pg. 99
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2013 pg. 452
Booklist 06/01/2013 pg. 75
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2013 pg. 84
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 160902 / Mouse Bird Snake Wolf
Reading Level: 3.5 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5