In this lively introduction to the pleasure of words, a timid young mouse\'s first trip out of the nest becomes a reading adventure.
When Mouseling realizes that the cat would rather know what\'s in the books than eat him for dinner, he starts reading aloud to the cat--the best gift he can give in exchange for the world of stories..
The library offers a treasure trove of words, also danger: a cat.
Once he leaves the nest, he decides that discovering Words is his mission in life and finds more Words than he can count, spelling and sounding them out, thrilled by each one.
Mouseling has grown up surrounded by words, scraps of paper torn from menus.
In this lively introduction to the pleasure of words, a timid young mouse\'s first trip out of the nest becomes a reading adventure
