The Bookstore Mouse

by Christian, Peggy

• ISBN13: 9780152045647
• ISBN10: 0152045643
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

He lives in a bookstore behind a large WALL OF WORDS.He eats DELICIOUS WORDS from recipes.He throws SHARP WORDS and POINTED REMARKS at his enemy.And one day he slips through the words into a story that is the greatest adventure of his life. He is THE BOOKSTORE MOUSE.A clever and wise fable, this tale is for every book lover, every story lover, and every lover of words.

Author Biography

PEGGY CHRISTIAN has been a reading specialist, a bookstore manager, a teacher of language arts and writing, and the author of the picture book If You Find a Rock. She lives in Missoula, Montana.

Table of Contents

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