Ami Shin

Play a game of hide-and-squeak with all of New York’s mice. They’re flocking to the famous sights, so make sure you look twice! A stripy cat and Marilyn Mouse peep out of every page And every building’s packed with mice: the city is their stage! It’s a typical morning in New York City. Hard-working mice are crossing town on the subway and making their way to work. Some bake bagels inside the Chrysler building, while others organize the bookshelves in the Strand Book Store. Glimpse inside iconic buildings and landmarks and see a wonderfully frenetic world of industrious mice. Every page is teeming with surprises and invites children to play ‘hide-and-squeak’ with a black-and-white cat, a mouse in a bee costume and a mysterious wrapped gift hidden on every page. You’ll never see New York in the same way again!

Play a game of hide-and-squeak with all of London’s mice. They’re flocking to the famous sights, so make sure you look twice! A stripy cat and Sherlock Mouse peep out of every page And every building’s packed with mice: the city is their stage! It’s a busy morning and all across London mice dressed in top hats and smart overcoats are making their way to work by bus, by tube and by train. The mice of Parliament are at work baking cakes and fishing to feed fat cats who are arriving in a hot air balloon, while artistic mice perform surreal magic tricks inside Tate Modern. The Gherkin’s businessmice are busily practising five-pin bowling, while over at the Cheesegrater, mice young and old enjoy hydrosliding through twelve storeys of watery fun! Every page is teeming with surprises and invites children to play ‘hide-and-squeak’ with a black-and-white cat, a mouse in a bee costume and a mysterious wrapped gift hidden on every page. You’ll never see London in the same way again!

Follow Stanley the mouse, a banjo-playing busker from London, on his very first trip around the world. Stanley joins Mrs. Crosbie on her majestic airship, a beautiful hot air balloon that offers travelers unparalleled views. Together they visit fifteen far-flung locations, including Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Beijing, Namibia's Etosha National Park, Moscow, Tokyo, Rome, Delhi, Germany's Black Forest, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Seoul, and Barcelona, before returning home--although not without plenty of excitement!Stanley almost doesn't make it past his first destination thanks to overindulging on delicious cheeses in Paris; he loses his hat in a breeze above the Great Wall of China; in Moscow, Stanley and Mrs. Crosbie discover they have a secret stowaway in the form of a fat black-and-white cat; and quite unintentionally, Stanley causes a stampede of elephants in Delhi. These and many more adventures await in this global addition to the Mice in the City series, which celebrates the culture of each destination through foods, festivals, and dress. The illustrations teem with surprises and the book invites children to play "hide-and-squeak," searching each page for familiar characters.

Play a game of hide-and-squeak with all of London’s mice. They’re flocking to the famous sights, so make sure you look twice! A stripy cat and Sherlock Mouse peep out of every page And every building’s packed with mice: the city is their stage! It’s a busy morning and all across London mice dressed in top hats and smart overcoats are making their way to work by bus, by tube and by train. The mice of Parliament are at work baking cakes and fishing to feed fat cats who are arriving in a hot air balloon, while artistic mice perform surreal magic tricks inside Tate Modern. The Gherkin’s businessmice are busily practising five-pin bowling, while over at the Cheesegrater, mice young and old enjoy hydrosliding through twelve storeys of watery fun! Every page is teeming with surprises and invites children to play ‘hide-and-squeak’ with a black-and-white cat, a mouse in a bee costume and a mysterious wrapped gift hidden on every page. You’ll never see London in the same way again!