4-7 yearsChildren
Fiction
Fantasy Nature
Tales of Tommy Twitchnose
By Terry Waite
These sweet stories, not too dissimilar to the tales of Beatrix Potter or Wind in the Willows, feature a family of mice who live under the floorboards of a farmhouse.
Their adventures and escapades are told in long-ish, reasonably stand-alone chapters. Tommy is the dad of the family, and we get to know him, his wife and two children pretty well through the book.
‘Tales of Tommy Twitchnose’ is a great read-aloud for young primary-aged children. The length of the stories might put off a pre-schooler (although you could always read in stages) and the subject matter would probably lose the interest of an older child, but my 6-year-old twins enjoyed having these stories read to them.