Mr. Twigg's Mistake

His is a fantastic story, about a little boy in Connecticut who finds a tiny baby mole and feeds it from a box of breakfast cereal. This virtually non-nutritious cereal, hyped by its manufacturers in a most obnoxious manner, is described by Lawson in a way that will make even a jaded 21st Century consumer smile. Unbeknownst to everyone, the box of cereal fed to the mole is filled with pure Vitamin X. The Vitamin X should have been distributed in thousands of cereal boxes, but due to the mistake of Mr. Twigg, an employee at the cereal company, it all ends up in our hero's box.
What happens to the little mole as he eats the cereal, day after day, is the heart of this delightful story. The artwork is as funny as this preposterous story. show more You'll enjoy it (although watch out for some of the dated nonsense that sometimes lurks when the black maid, Pearlacy, is present). show less

I love Robert Lawson's illustrations. They really drew me into the story. This was a fun adventure. Though I really did feel for the poor next door neighbor. I found the ending kind of bizarre, but as I read I did wonder what could possibly happen. Quite a conundrum to resolve.

This is another of Robert Lawson's beautiful animal/human tales. I loved the story line and I appreciated Lawson's wonderful imagery and his sense of humor in this book.

Many entertaining things begin to happen when General de Gaulle, a mole on the Appleton's Connecticut farm, eats that extra-special box of Bities.