Mr Koochi is a mouse on a mission. He builds himself a house and grows his own food. `Clever me!' he thinks. All he needs now is a wife. He decides that a princess wife would suit him very well ... but after promising he will never abandon her, he finds that she is plump and plain - not exactly the princess he dreamt about. Maybe he isn't so clever after all. And yet she turns out to be clever and kind - but has his discovery come too late? Mr Koochi has to learn a hard lesson about kindness to win his princess back.

A mousy love story that shows how kindness is more important than beauty.

 

There are 24 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2017 by Tiny Owl Publishing Ltd .

Author and illustrator Anahita Teymorian also works with animation in her native Iran. Her books are known all over the world, and her work has been featured in major international exhibitions. She has won awards at the Bologna Children's Book Fair and the Noma Concours. Other books for Tiny Owl include The Clever Mouse (2015) and A Bird Like Himself (2015).