The Church Mouse - Graham Oakley

This is the first of many books about Arthur the mouse who lives in a church & gets along very well with Sampson the church cat, who 'had listened to so many sermons about the meek being blessed & everybody really being brothers that he had grown quite frighteningly meek & treated Arthur just like a brother.' But Arthur is lonely & one day invites all the mice from the town to live in the safety of the church with him, in return for them doing odd jobs. All goes well until Sampson falls asleep during a sermon & wakes up to find himself chasing the mice around the church & causing mayhem. The townsfolk are furious & ...  Read the complete review

Once in a while a really special children's book comes along, one that hopefully you will read over and over with your children and then your grandchildren. The Church Mouse is one of these books; younger readers will adore it, and parents probably will too (I'm 23 and absolutely loved it!). BACKGROUND INFO: The Church Mouse is the first in a series of books written and illustrated by Graham Oakley, who was born in 1929 in Shrewsbury. Oakley wrote 14 of the stories between 1972 and 2000 and the series has sold over one and a half million copies worldwide. It has won a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award and has been nominated for ...  Read the complete review