Mouse Goes to the Mountains

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Mouse Goes to the Mountains

A Hike Through Nature

Alice Melvin, text by William Snow

(Thames & Hudson)

We begin with a map of this walk, when Mouse Goes to the Mountains, beginning at the Railway Station. It’s here with a ticket that our journey begins.

We have flaps to lift, beginning with Mouse’s cabin aboard the sleeper train. He waves to gardeners in the allotments as the train passes and a tea trolley courses down the aisle. However he’s the only traveller to disembark at the Highland station. Rabbit has no customers. Mountain sights spread out before our hiker- ‘the calm of the landscape/ that silently sparkles with droplets of dew’. However, we are encouraged to peek behind the tussock to spy ptarmigans in their winter plumage.

There’s a ‘squelchy and mossy‘ bog to pass to the Bothy, after which Mouse’s path takes him beyond the waterfall to ‘a calm mountain lake’. ‘The water is cold’. 

All this and more we take in when Mouse Goes to the Mountains, another visual feast from Alice Melvin. Like others in the series, including Mouse’s Wood, the experience is inspired by the artist’s own en plein air sketches. They are breathtaking. We’re indulged by so many asides, opportunities to really see and hear this wild, remote outdoors, where water rushes, birds sing and rain patters.

Bookwagon loves this series. We are so happy to welcome a new addition aboard.