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1somermoore
Book found: The Lost & Found House by Consuelo Joerns
(thanks to bookel's post below)
A family member is looking for this book for a small child. So far I've found Abel's Island, The Mouse Book and Dollhouse Mouse, but none of them have all the elements. I don't know the time period when it would have been published. Thanks.
(thanks to bookel's post below)
A family member is looking for this book for a small child. So far I've found Abel's Island, The Mouse Book and Dollhouse Mouse, but none of them have all the elements. I don't know the time period when it would have been published. Thanks.
2bookel
Google search: shipwrecked mouse dollhouse kirkusreviews
Result:
THE LOST & FOUND HOUSE
By Consuelo Joerns
KIRKUS REVIEW
This tale of Cricket, a fetching little mouse in a turtleneck sweater, maintains the straight-faced, ingenuous tone first struck in last year's The Forgotten Bear--but without the earlier book's preciousness and in the service of a sturdier story. Cricket is looking for a home when he comes across a tiny house (an old dollhouse) in the barn. ""His heart thumped as he pushed the door."" Inside, the place was really a shambles,"" but Cricket works hard making it shipshape. Then begins a pillar-to-post odyssey, with the house (and Cricket in it) carted off to the dump, and from there (because ""Cricket had made it so handsome"") to an antique shop, where a gentleman murmuring ""'X-squeeze-it! Purr-fec-shun' and other such nonsense"" has it crated and shipped. A terrible storm, a shipwreck, a scattered landing on a sandy beach, a freezing, snowy winter--and finally the house is spied by a boy who wants a station house for his train and who, when he discovers a sniffling, sneezing mouse inside, nurses Cricket back to health and makes him his train engineer. Joerns closes the jaunty mouse's cozy adventure on a perfect note, with an out-of-control train ride which ends safely--thanks to the boy's shouted directions--back in front of Cricket's station-house home.
Pub Date: Sept. 1st, 1979
Publisher: Four Winds
Result:
THE LOST & FOUND HOUSE
By Consuelo Joerns
KIRKUS REVIEW
This tale of Cricket, a fetching little mouse in a turtleneck sweater, maintains the straight-faced, ingenuous tone first struck in last year's The Forgotten Bear--but without the earlier book's preciousness and in the service of a sturdier story. Cricket is looking for a home when he comes across a tiny house (an old dollhouse) in the barn. ""His heart thumped as he pushed the door."" Inside, the place was really a shambles,"" but Cricket works hard making it shipshape. Then begins a pillar-to-post odyssey, with the house (and Cricket in it) carted off to the dump, and from there (because ""Cricket had made it so handsome"") to an antique shop, where a gentleman murmuring ""'X-squeeze-it! Purr-fec-shun' and other such nonsense"" has it crated and shipped. A terrible storm, a shipwreck, a scattered landing on a sandy beach, a freezing, snowy winter--and finally the house is spied by a boy who wants a station house for his train and who, when he discovers a sniffling, sneezing mouse inside, nurses Cricket back to health and makes him his train engineer. Joerns closes the jaunty mouse's cozy adventure on a perfect note, with an out-of-control train ride which ends safely--thanks to the boy's shouted directions--back in front of Cricket's station-house home.
Pub Date: Sept. 1st, 1979
Publisher: Four Winds
3somermoore
Thank you so much!! That has to be it.
4somermoore
My family member confirmed it right away, that's the book they were looking for. Thanks again.
