Beautifully illustrated by Edna Miller, this is a story about a young mousekin parent who wonders how to teach the first litter of offspring to survive outside the nest in the tree. Mousekin runs into a group of other babies and tries out the life lessons on these youngsters while in secret the mousekin family watch.
When Mousekin goes into the forest to observe the ways in which the various animals protect themselves from predators he has his own very narrow escape