Santa Mouse Stories by Michael Brown

My compilation of these stories about Santa’s mouse helper, includes three stories: Santa Mouse; Santa Mouse, Where Are You?; and Santa Mouse Meets Montague. In the first story we meet a humble little mouse with no name. When this little mouse does something kind and actually meets Santa himself, he gets a name and a mission. In Santa Mouse, Where Are You?, Santa’s little mouse helper, now called Santa Mouse, becomes lost in the cold and the snow and experiences a sort of miracle when a light leads him to warmth and safety. “Montague Mouse was a mean little thing who often behaved like a rat.” The third story begins with these words, but over the course of the story Montague is taught a lesson. And he learns to believe in Santa Claus and Santa Mouse.

These are simple stories with the moral: behave yourself, and leave a piece of cheese for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. These books are all about Santa, so if you don’t have that tradition as part of your Christmas, these won’t be for you. But if you’re a Santa believer–or even as we were a Santa pretender–these little stories will hit just the right note of wonder and fun and imagination for preschoolers. I think I could manage to read these repeatedly over the Christmas season without becoming a babbling idiot–an important quality in a book for two to four year olds.

And there are dozens of Santa Mouse and Santa Mouse spin-off books and even merchandise, coloring books, board books, etc. You can read a more critical review at Kirkus Reviews. But I suggest you add it to your Christmas repertoire, if you run across a copy.

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