The Bookstore Mouse

by Christian, Peggy; Lippincott, Gary A.

• ISBN13: 9780152002039
• ISBN10: 0152002030
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books

Summary

After literally falling into a story, a mouse named Cervantes discovers the true power of words. This rollicking allegory is for every book lover, every story lover, every lover of words--and the bane of censors everywhere.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE Of Some Things That Relate to This Adventure	1	(3)
1 Wherein Cervantes the Bookstore Mouse Recounts a Day Like Any Other--Almost	4	(5)
2 A Further Account of That Almost Normal Day	9	(7)
3 Of the Stupendous Adventure That Befell Cervantes in the Book	16	(8)
4 Of the Discourse Between Cervantes and Sigfried and Other Matters Worth Relating	24	(6)
5 A Strange Happening, Not More Strange Than True	30	(8)
6 Of Sigfried's Extraordinary and Unaccountable Decision	38	(10)
7 A Most Singular and Strange Adventure Befalls Sigfried	48	(10)
8 That Gives an Account of Things That You'll Know When You Read It	58	(8)
9 Of the Ominous Accidents That Crossed Sigfried as He Entered the Forest	66	(8)
10 The Never-to-Be-Imagined Combat Between Jargon and the Valorous Sigfried	74	(9)
11 What Befell the Renowned Adventurers in the Fearful Moralise Mountains	83	(13)
12 Being an Account of Our Descent to the Darkest Depths	96	(8)
13 Wherein Sigfried Saves the Stories--Almost	104	(8)
14 Being the Undisputed Proof of Sigfried's Incredible Courage	112	(9)
15 Wherein Sigfried Says and Becomes a Good Knight	121	(5)
16 Of a Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse	126	(7)
EPILOGUE Of That Which Happened Thereafter	133