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Title: For age 4 to 80+
Review: We got this as a gift for my 4 year old. I was not familiar with the book, but after a few reads, I started to notice the amazing complexity and detail of the pictures. There are messages in bottles throughout the book and the tiny message follow the story line. Also, the mice live in an antique clock in an antique shop, and the ship they sail is also on display in the antique shop. There is also a little box with the initials HS in the antique shop, which I assume refer to the person in the book's dedication. My son loves the book too and we've had lots to discuss. I actually found myself looking at the book myself without my son, and I looked up more information about it only to find that the author was also author of a book I loved as a child: The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten. There is a wonderful humor and humanity in these books that comes through in clever little details.
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