Sun, 19 May
|The Edinburgh Bookshop
Mouse on the River: Workshop and Storytime with Alice Melvin
FREE Event This is a live, in-person event. The Edinburgh Bookshop, 219 Bruntsfield Place, EH10 4DH Join us for a special Workshop and Storytime with Alice Melvin for her new book, Mouse on the River!
Time & Location
19 May 2024, 09:30 – 10:30 BST
The Edinburgh Bookshop, 219 Bruntsfield Pl, Edinburgh EH10 4DH, UK
About The Event
FREE Event
This is a live, in-person event.
The Edinburgh Bookshop, 219 Bruntsfield Place, EH10 4DH
Join us for a special Workshop and Storytime with Alice Melvin for her new book, Mouse on the River!
Listen to Alice reading Mouse on the River and get stuck in with a special craft activity to take home with you followed by a book signing. All craft materials supplied.
This event is suitable for families of all ages, and children aged 3 to 10.
About the book
This gorgeous follow-up to the award-winning Mouse’s Wood accompanies Mouse on a new adventure - from the woods, down a gently flowing river to the open sea - to visit an old friend. Detailed illustrations feature many plants and animals for children to identify, and the atmospheric rhyming text winds down to a peaceful conclusion perfect for bedtime.
Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours, the gently rhyming story tracks the changing environment of the river’s banks, the shift from day to night, pleasant weather to rain and back again, and introduces a whole new cast of friendly characters who wave to Mouse on the way, including beavers, water voles, and water fowl aplenty.
Mouse travels by a willow coppice, a riverside town with a lock, a river island, a reed bed, the estuary, and the river mouth before finishing up the journey on the shore of the open sea.
Illustrated by Alice Melvin, who has spent hours drawing directly from nature to make the book, Mouse on the River is sure to win over readers with its charming characters and intensely detailed scenes. A nature spotter’s
guide is also included at the back of the book.
About the author:
Alice Melvin is an award-winning illustrator and product designer based in Edinburgh. Her picture books for children, including ‘Grandma’s House’, ‘The High Street’, ‘Counting Birds’ and ‘An A-to-Z Treasure Hunt’, have together sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. In 2022, Mouse’s Wood won the GOLD Award: Best Pre-Schooler Book 3–5yrs, Junior Design Award.