“The artwork is what first drew me to this book, it is absolutely gorgeous! Richly coloured and detailed every panel holds your attention and demands to be lingered over, and this is important as quite a bit of the story-telling is done with the artwork alone and it works brilliantly.
While these mice may appear cute, they certainly wouldn’t thank you for saying so, these are warrior mice, and can be seen early on as they fight one of their deadliest enemies, a snake - ruthlessly destroying it, and the eggs it was guarding.
While there is a feeling we have much to learn about the characters in future stories, the world the inhabit feels as fully formed as any I have come across, there is a real history lurking in the background, and this adds to the wonderful artwork, to create a wonderfully evocative atmosphere.”
Bart wrote this review Friday, August 29, 2008.
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