Mouse & Mole What Might Have Been

By georgieva.iskra / April 11, 2025

Illustration from a picture book review featuring a mouse and a mole, symbolizing friendship and imagination.

A strong friendship helps Mouse & Mole overcome rainy and under-the-weather days when they doubt and want to be someone else.

In “A Rainy Day”, Mouse and Mole are dissatisfied with the weather and try various things to stop it: they shout at the rain, dance and sing outside, and want to be friends and hug it. Unfortunately, nothing helped until they decided to build a moat. Keeping themselves occupied, they didn’t notice that “the rain stopped ages ago”, and they found out that it was because of the Rat passing on a walk. Yes, they eventually became friends with the rain, singing for more rain to come.

“Atishoo” is where Mouse fall ill and relies on the care of Mole, who tries hard to prepare a delicious breakfast, but it is how Mole likes it, and he can’t resist it, the same as his plan to cheer Mouse up with a comic magazine and a lovely warm bath. How is it all going to end for Mole and Mouse?

In “What Might Have Been”, Mole dreams of being something else, a monkey, a dolphin, a lark, but his qualities are unsuitable. On the contrary, Mouse enjoys being a mouse and wins Mole. After all, being a Mole is perfectly fine. And with the help of the flying kite, the two friends are convinced that life is just fine the way it is.

“Mouse & Mole What Might Have Been” offers three gentle stories for young readers with which they can identify. Children can easily follow and have a scope to expand their vocabulary with words such as goloshes, sou’westers and mollycoddle. The illustrations present predominantly the two classic characters, sometimes within a nostalgic setting, as in “Atishoo”.

Another addition to what it means to share life with a friend!

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