Good Book

When thinking back to my childhood, it was hard for me to pick just one good book but I finally decided on one. A book I believe to be great is Jan Brett’s Town Mouse Country Mouse. This book has received no awards but growing awards did not matter much to me. I have always believed a good book tells a story which captivates the reader and makes you feel what the character is feeling. Town Mouse Country Mouse does this. As a reader, I am worried when Town Mouse is caught in a storm and I am relieved when Country Mouse escapes the mouse trap. A good children’s book has beautiful pictures where you can see what you are reading. In this book Jan Brett does a wonderful job in her illustrations. My favorite illustration is where the mice are back in their homes, safe at last. A good children’s book has a moral but it is not shoved upon you. The moral of this story is the grass is not always greener on the other side. Town and Country mouse have to switch lives with each other before they can realize this, but hopefully by reading this, a child will not have to go thru what the mice did to realize their lives could be worse.