Holm, J. & Holm, M. (2005). Babymouse; queen of the world. New York, NY. Random House Children's Books.
In this first book of the Babymouse series, Baby Mouse is introduced. She is an average "tween" girl (even though she is a mouse) who simply wants to be queen of the world, is that too much to ask for? Instead her life just seems typical....homework, chores, annoying little brother, curly whiskers, and a locker that is always stuck. She wants to be like Felicia Furrypaws the most popular girl in school, she was the real queen... in Babymouse's eyes. Babymouse desperately wants to be invited to Felicia's slumber party, but she has to give Felicia her book report and give up a movie night with her best friend in order to make it happen. At the party Babymouse realizes who her true best friend is and that she really already is queen of the world because she has everything she could ever want...cupcakes, good books, dresses with hearts, and a true best friend.
Characters and style stand out the most in this adorable low fantasy graphic novel. Except for the fact that the animal characters in this book can talk, the characters are typical tween age kids. Babymouse of course is the main character and she is just a girl who most girls this age can relate to because she wants to be friends with the cool girl at school. Within the book we can see her imagining things as if she was in a mystery, adventure, science fiction, or ghost story. She likes to read these kind of books and she usually starts to daydream in the middle of the day. From here, our minds learn to become sort of like a movie and we are able to go back from the dream scene to the regular scene. The authors also writes speech bubbles and captions to Babymouse as if she is having dialog with the authors themselves. We typically think of boys attracted to graphic novels, but I think Babymouse has probably captured a whole new audience of girls.
Characters and style stand out the most in this adorable low fantasy graphic novel. Except for the fact that the animal characters in this book can talk, the characters are typical tween age kids. Babymouse of course is the main character and she is just a girl who most girls this age can relate to because she wants to be friends with the cool girl at school. Within the book we can see her imagining things as if she was in a mystery, adventure, science fiction, or ghost story. She likes to read these kind of books and she usually starts to daydream in the middle of the day. From here, our minds learn to become sort of like a movie and we are able to go back from the dream scene to the regular scene. The authors also writes speech bubbles and captions to Babymouse as if she is having dialog with the authors themselves. We typically think of boys attracted to graphic novels, but I think Babymouse has probably captured a whole new audience of girls.
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