Rodent Positive Books

Welcome to the Rodent Positive Book List.

Please suggest book titles, especially books in languages other than English.

There are many childrens books that feature rodents.  Here are a few of them.

• Animalia by Graeme Base - Animals in alphabetical order.  M is for Mouse
• Books by Jill Barklem - She wrote a series of books about a community of mice called "Brambly Hedge".
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (also Runaway Ralph and Ralph S. Mouse)
• Maisy books by Lucy Cousins
• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
• The Numbers (Creative Editions) by Monique Felix
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Mouse in the House by Henrietta - "A Real-Life Game of Hide and Seek"
• Lilly's Plastic Purse one of the many children's books by Kevin Henkes
• Time Stops for No Mouse and The Sands of Time Hermux Tantamoq adventures by Michael Hoeye
• Angelina Ballerina by Katharine Holabird - A series of books about a young mouse named Angelina.
• The Great Pet Sale by Mick Inkpen
• Martin's Mice, Charlie Muffin's Miracle Mouse (a.k.a. "How Green Was My Mouse"), and many other books about rodents by Dick King-Smith (he also wrote "Babe, The Gallant Pig")
• Bruno the Tailor by Lars Klinting (also Bruno the Baker, Bruno the Carpenter and Bruno the Gardener) - Books about a busy beaver
• Micawber by John Lithgow
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
• Church Mice and the Moon by Graham Oakley - There are several books in the Church Mouse series.
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert O'Brien - Also made into an animated movie called: The Secret of NIMH
• The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter - One of her many books featuring rodents
• A Rat's Tale, The Revenge of Randal Reese-Rat, and The Wainscott Weasel by Tor Seidler
• Basil in the Wild West by Eve Titus (Only one of her Basil books is currently in print, the rest of the Basil books and her Anatole books are out-of-print)
• Stuart Little by E.B. White - About a boy who looks like a mouse (made in to a movie)
• Little Mouse and Big Red Strawberry and The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear by Audrey Wood

• Little Mouse: The Mouse Who Lived With Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond by Bill Montague
• The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires - a book about Emily Dickinson
• Ben and Me : A New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin As Written by His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson
• She Was Nice to Mice : The Other Side of Elizabeth I's Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians by Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (Out-of-Print)

• Redwall by Brian Jacques - The first of the Redwall series.
• The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis - The first of the Deptford Mice Trilogy
• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett - If you like rats or Pratchett, you'll like this book.
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman - A book about the Holocaust with Jews drawn as mice and Nazis drawn as cats, based on the story of Art's father during the Holocaust.
• Adventures of the Rat Family : A Fairy Tail by Jules Verne (en francais: Aventures de la famille Raton)

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (a book about a mentally retarded adult, who is unable to beat a mouse running a maze, volunteers for an experiment to make him smarter)
• The Green Mile by Stephen King (not a book for children)
• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Random Rodent Links

• Rat and Mouse Club of America
• LOL Rats
• My list of degu web sites
• Jon's World o' Squirrels

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If a book is out of print, click on the words "Out-of-Print" to search www.bookfinder.com for it

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