Charlie Muffin’s Miracle Mouse

by Dick King-Smith

Crown Publishers

ages 6-8

Premise: Charlie Muffin isn’t your average farmer. He raises mice in the shed behind his house—Muffin’s High Class Mice. This bachelor breeds mice of every coat and color, and he’s also an inventor and a taxidermist. His nice, orderly routine is thrown for a loop the day Merry Day becomes a customer. He laughs off her challenge to breed a green mouse. Impossible, right? But “there’s no such word in the dictionary as can’t...