num_pages: 64
description: A mouse's-eye-view of Emily DickinsonWhen a mouse named Emmaline takes up residence behind the wainscoting of Emily Dickinson's bedroom she wonders what it is that keeps Emily scribbling at her writing table throughout the day and into the night. Emmaline sneaks a look and finds that it's poetry! Inspired Emmaline writes her own first poem and secretly deposits it on Emily's desk. Emily answers with another poem and a lively exchange begins. In this charming and fanciful introduction to Emily Dickinson Elizabeth Spires demonstrates the power of poetry to express our deepest feelings while Claire A. Nivola's delicate pencil drawings capture the intricacies of life in Emily's world. Included are eight of Dickinson's most loved poems with seven corresponding poems by Emmaline that are sure to bring out the poet in any child.
language: English
title: The Mouse of Amherst
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)