Kobo eBook (November 29th, 2011): $7.99 The story of Frederick starts by introducing a chatty family of field mice who live in a stone wall alongside a meadow not far from a barn and a granary.

Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables.He sits in the field, soaking up the sun, collecting the colors, and gathering words. But one mouse, Frederick, does not join the others. Most of the mice are busy working day and night to store up food for the winter. Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, etc. A community of mice live in a wall outside of an abandoned farmhouse. He is also a four-time Caldecott Honour Winner for his books Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy and Alexander the Wind-Up Mouse.“When dreary winter comes, it is Frederick the poet-mouse who warms his friends and cheers them with his words.” - Wilson Library Bulletin. Instead of working hard in the summer like the rest of the mouse family and hoarding food for the winter, Frederick collects sunbeams, colors and words. “In Frederick, a mouse who is a poet from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail demonstrates that a seemingly purposeless life is indeed far from that-and that we need not live by bread alone!”-Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Frederick, the field mouse sat on the old stone wall while his four brothers gathered food for the approaching winter days. 'A splendid achievement.'- School Library Journal (Starred Review)

Frederick the mouse