cover image Mouse of My Heart: A Treasury of Sense and Nonsense: Mouse of My Heart

Mouse of My Heart: A Treasury of Sense and Nonsense: Mouse of My Heart

Margaret Wise Brown. Hyperion Books, $19.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-7868-0628-7

Mouse of My Heart: A Treasury of Sense and Nonsense gathers 56 poems and stories by Margaret Wise Brown, many previously unpublished. With an introduction by Leonard Marcus and jewel-like illustrations by Loretta Krupinski, this is one handsome volume. Whether celebrating contented solitude (""A Cottontail Rabbit in a Cotton Field"") or the power of rebellion (""Sssssssssssssspit/ I'm Wild Cat Wild/ The Tiger's child""), Brown touches the universal feelings of childhood. ( Mar.)