Unexpected guests

An interactive page-turner of a picture book. Providing a playful, surprising twist on the classic "unexpected guest" premise, the narrative here is flipped, making humans the unexpected guests in a tale told by mice! The mice are curious about their guests and set out to investigate. They find weir...

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Main Author: Ilustrajo, Mariajo (Author, Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Beverly, MD : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2026
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Summary:An interactive page-turner of a picture book. Providing a playful, surprising twist on the classic "unexpected guest" premise, the narrative here is flipped, making humans the unexpected guests in a tale told by mice! The mice are curious about their guests and set out to investigate. They find weird and wonderful human objects and lots of food, so they decide their guests might not be so bad after all -- until our intrepid mouse narrator finds himself caught in a jar! His friends try to save him but get caught too, and they fear the worst, but they're set free from the jar ... and into a cardboard Mouse Land. The humans aren't so bad after all! But, for the final twist, the mice discover there is one last guest to deal with ... and it's even worse than humans: a CAT!
Item Description:Shortlisted for Illustrator of the Year - British Book Awards 2025.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Audience:03-05.
P-K.
ISBN:9781805701064
1805701061
9781805701057
1805701053
Author Notes:Mariajo Ilustrajo is an award-winning Spanish illustrator based in the UK. She completed her MA in Children's Illustration from the prestigious Cambridge School of Art, before going on to be crowned the overall winner of the World Illustration Awards. Her debut picture book, Flooded , has been translated into 20 languages and won the Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration.