Rating: 5/5
When his parents died in a car crash, a boy’s life was pushed into his grandmother’s care where he was told to live with her in Norway. However, when the will arrived, the father claimed that he wished his son to grow up in England, where he could be educated in English schools, make English friends and work up to English culture. Unfortunately his grandmother started to suffer from pneumonia and they were forced to have a holiday down south in Hotel Magnificent, where she might get the fresh air the sea provides. The Christmas holidays they were going to spend in Norway were now ruined. So, as the nurse instructed, they reluctantly moved.
But one day, when the little boy took his two mice William and Mary where he could train them in secret in the ballroom, a ginormous flock of at least one hundred and fifty women came marching into the room. Luckily for him, the boy’s grandmother knew a lot about witches, and how to identify them, and this she had told him; so the boy knew these women immediately as the cruel, children-demolishing realm. When he realised he was barred in, hidden behind a screen for presentations and notice boards, the witches, after a long meeting about turning every child in the world to mice, smelt out the little boy and was turned to a mouse himself.
Read this brilliant, witty, intriguing book to find out what happened to the mouse-boy and his worried grandmother.