What is nice about the Church Mice series is that the illustrations are complex and funny while the underlying message is one of cooperation and learning acceptance of others. The comic book type format encourages all readers so the words can be slowly learned in a fun way. We didn't expect our son to learn to read with these, but he did on his own.

His fave was "The Church Mice and the Moon:
The Church Mice & The Moon: Oakley: 97868974741: Amazon.com: Books

This one appealed to hisbudding techie nature and was also a big adventure. There is one about a constuction site, too that was prized by him.

I liked the art work (of course) and it has been fun remembering these books and how our son responded to them! Nice memories for me!

There are two other animal books I learned about here...just recently and I bought them for MYSELF!

The author Jackie French from Australia.
Diary of a Wombat
Diary of a Wombat - by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley ((C) Harper Collins Publishing) - YouTube
Diary of a Baby Wombat:
This one is funnier and has a human baby in it too.


These are precious and are mostly targeting small children.. but I loved the simplicity of these and the art work is very good and would appeal to a creative type child I would think.
Jackie French has a funny blog with a story of how she came to write the books, as they are based on her own experience with a rescued baby wombat on her property in Australia. It is very funny and touching...

jackie-french

I think these books are keepers forever, even when the kids grow up and leave.

I often read these myself, again and again.