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LAURA CECIL
The Mousehunter by Alex Milway
Illustrated by Alex Milway
Age range: 10 plus
* longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2009
"Emiline raced across the hallway to the bottom of the grand stairwell. Her silver mousecatcher’s armour clattered noisily – it was way too big for a twelve-year-old girl, and she clutched it firmly to stop it falling around her ankles.
Sitting on the bottom step of the stairs, quietly preening itself in a beam of light, was the fearsome Sharpclaw: the very same exotic and supremely expensive mouse that escaped from the mousery only hours earlier. The power of its gigantic razor-sharp claws had surprised everyone."
When the body of a dead sailor washes ashore in Old Town bearing an unusual mousebox, a mystery unfolds that threatens to rock the mousing world to its core. Unwittingly caught up at the heart of it is Emiline Orelia, a young mousekeeper who suddenly finds herself in a whole heap of trouble.
Along with her trusty mouse Portly, Emiline overhears that the famous privateer, Devlin Drewshank, is planning to hunt down the pirate, Mousebeard, notorious scourge of the mousing world. Emiline sees it as her chance to escape Old Town and be part of an exciting adventure, but after winning a place on Drewshank’s ship, things take an immediate turn for the worse.
Rights :
Faber & Faber (Volume)
Laura Cecil (Film & TV)
Publishers:
UK : Faber & Faber
US : Little, Brown
Germany: Ravensburger
Hungary : PeopleTeam
Poland : Wydawnickwo Auditus
Romania : Rao
“a cross between Pirates of the Caribbean and Lemony Snicket, with a shot of the Simpsons and a Muppet adventure film thrown in!... A modern day Treasure Island” TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
“a fast-moving and atmospheric tale that somehow manages to blend pirates
and mice...diverting, engaging and imaginative” TELEGRAPH
"Fantastical mice smuggling, pirates, mouse hunters, heros and heroines...
a swashbuckling adventure about the preservation of Golden Mice a rare and valuable species...different, fun and full of shenanigans...glorious..."
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