First sentence: There were five Miggses: Mother and Father Miggs, and Lester and two sisters. They had, as field mice usually do, an outdoor nest for summer in an empty lot and an indoor nest for winter in a nearby house. They were very surprised one summer day to find a strange bundle in their nest, a small gray and black bundle of fur and ears and legs, with eyes not yet open. They knew by its mewing that the bundle must be a kitten, a lost kitten with no family and no name.

Premise/plot: Mickey is the kitten raised as a mouse. He goes many months thinking--believing--that he is a mouse. He's raised to fear cats, to watch for cats. So what happens when the human family discovers him, starts feeding him, and shows him--via a mirror--that he IS a cat. Can he overcome the confusion? Will he choose to live as a mouse or a cat? How will he feel about his adopted family?

My thoughts: I'll be honest the text was all over the place. I'm all for nature versus nurture. (Though it isn't always my favorite or best theme. My favorite of this type being LAMBERT THE SHEEPISH LION which is just pure awesomeness.) I loved, loved, loved the illustrations by Garth Williams. Garth Williams illustrating cute and adorable cats, kittens, and mice?!?! I'm there for it. I'd read it for his illustrations alone. ( )

This book was one of my favorites, the main idea is to love one another as if they were family. A kitten was left to be brought up by a family of mice. The mice family, Miggses, found this kitten and brought him up as their own. Mickey, the cat, loved his mice family until one day the human family put out a bowl of milk and showed Mickey his reflection and showed him that he was in fact a cat. The humans then took him in and Mickey visited his mice family all the time. ( )

A mouse family finds a helpless newborn kitten and decide to adopt him. They never told Mickey that he is a cat. Finally one day Mickey finds out the truth. He then becomes a cat. But he still visits his mouse family. I like the book because it shows that no matter where we come from, we can always become friends.