The Church Mice and the Ring

A later edition to the Church Mice series, this is one of the four that I owned as a child. It was the only one that I got new (probably when I was nine or ten, so while I still really enjoyed it, I was not as attached to it as the ones that I had 'grown up' with). The plot involves the mice trying to convince a rich family to adopt a stray dog (so that he stops eating all their food), by coming up with a diamond heist. It's not one of my most favourite of the series but equally there's nothing weak about it either; it is witty, beautiful, clever and absorbing.