Who Lives Here?
Tanya Roitman
Hardcover
(Blue Apple, May 3, 2007)
A tiny field mouse moves into an abandoned building. One by one, a cat, a rabbit, a frog, and a dog move in with him. "There's always room for one more," says Mouse. After dinner, when it's time to go to sleep, Mouse makes sure each new friend has just the right place to sleep. Vertically stepped pages create the architecture of the tall, tall house, and die cuts hide and reveal each of the animals in this gentle story about friendship and learning to share. Tanya Roitman's rich, traditional folk art accompanies this retelling loosely drawn from a Russian folktale she enjoyed as a child.