This is a story of two sets of mice, one who live in the country and one who live in a town. The mice switch places because they think life will be better on the other side. Both sets find out the dangers of living in their new homes and start to miss their old ones. After encountering things such as rain and owls, cats and mouse traps, each pair of mice runs back to their old original homes.
Type: picture book, hard
Genre: fantasy
Illustrations: pencil

A town and a country mouse decide to switch homes because they are bored with their everyday lives. The mice face new adventures in their new environments. They find that they want to return home to their normal lives.

This is a good book to read to students in kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade. This book shows that the grass is not always greener on the other side. The country mice want to leave to go to the city. They think the city life will be easier. The town mice want to go to the country because they think the life is a lot less stressful. They trade places and find out they were wrong. The country mice miss the country and the city mice miss the town. They notice that the altrernate life is not for them. Once they move back the owl and the car talk about trading lives. They should have learned from the mice. This book has such a good moral. I would use this for a read aloud. ( )

The text is very descriptive and offers a good example of how to describe places and feelings. It also teaches one to appreciate what you have. The story would be a good book to read to struggling readers because the content is good, it is just more advanced in text.

This is a really cute story about two mouse families switching homes. They come to realize they are much more comfortable in their own home and the book has a sense of "there's not place like home" theme.

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