A sweet book with adventure for transitional readers . . .especially for children who learn to read at an early age. Precocious preschoolers would enjoy listening to this as a read aloud (or even read to themselves if they can read).
Mona the mouse is looking for a new home. When she spies a big oak tree with a heart engraved on its trunk, she pushes the heart, and a door opens for her. Inside the tree it is splendid! Music, laughter, roasted acorns greet her. Mona has discovered the Heartwood Hotel where every creature is welcomed (except bugs, bears and wolves). Mr. Heartwood, the owner, allows her to stay for a season working as a maid. Despite the safety of the tree, danger lurks. Mona's courage saves the hotel.
Delightful! Four books are in the series.
*Highly recommend.
Points to discuss: Mona is an orphan and lost her parents in a flood. Tilly, a fellow maid, is not kind to Mona throughout the book.
-Borrowed from the library.
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