Mouse's Wood by Alice Melvin is a board book that follows one small mouse on a year-long walk through the woods, with a different friend to call on each month. January begins at Squirrel's door, spring means waking Hedgehog, and the path winds on through bluebell picnics with Mole in May, berry-picking with Dormouse in June, and a stop in Fox's cozy caravan as winter comes back around. Die-cut flaps lift to reveal each friend's tucked-away little home along the way. Alice Melvin wrote and illustrated it, and her patterned, intricately detailed style is the reason to own it. The text moves in a gentle rhyme that keeps pace with Mouse's unhurried wandering. A board edition of the picture book that was a Daily Telegraph and Observer Children's Book of the Year. Board bookAges 2–5
