Logline:
After being caught by a weasel, a mouse buys time with four stories that he insists will make the Mouse Soup taste better.
London:
I like the story called "The Thorn Bush" because the old lady wants the thorn bush to live, and if the flowers really grew, I'd keep them for myself. And I love how at the end of the story, it says the mouse "finished reading his book". Just like us!
Ben:
Lobel's preachy, but not in a bad way; Its no wonder that he also did a book of Aesop's Fables: Everything has a moral. But luckily, everything is also very simple and I love the framing device (and I usually HATE framing devices). He's a masterful illustrator.
What it would be like to be in this book:
London says, "If I were that mouse with the beehive on my head, I wouldn't take it as easy as the mouse in the story does; I would take it off my head and throw it in the mud, bees and all!" She went on to say that if she was the tall stone, she would try "hopping" to see what was on the other side. If she were the cricket, she would put large ears on her head so she could hear the mouse (I wouldn't just bring a friend. And another friend. And five more friends!) If I were the old lady, I would ask the policeman to pull out the thorn bush. Ben would be looking over his shoulder in a sweaty paranoia the whole way back to his safe tree home because you don't want to cross a weasel!
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