Take it from the boy in this book by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond: Don’t feed the mouse unless you can satisfy a chain reaction of his requests.
What is "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"?
100
He fights a Nutcracker in countless ballet performances each Christmas season.
Who is the Mouse King?
100
This chiming of the clock spooks the Hickory Dickory Dock mouse.
What is 1 o'clock?
100
Chester, Wendell, Owen, Chrysanthemum and Sheila Rae probably go to the same school as this mouse, who favors red cowboy boots and a purple plastic purse.
Who is Lilly?
100
Templeton the Rat is the soul of self-interest in this barnyard novel written by E.B. White, but his scavenging finds some lovely words for a good friend who is a good writer.
What is "Charlotte's Web"?
200
Ralph S. Mouse is given the key to grand adventures when a boy named Keith leaves this at the Mountain View Hotel.
What is a toy motorcycle?
200
This big-eared mouse—despite being such a disappointment to his mother—has a chivalrous nature and a needle sword that help him rescue Princess Pea from the machinations of Roscuro and Miggery Sow.
Who is Despereaux?
200
A pretentious version of this nursery rhyme about a trio of mice includes the instruction: “Perceive how they scamper.”
What is "Three Blind Mice"?
200
The bookshelf of this character probably includes a copy of "A Very Young Dancer," "Ballet Shoes," "The Tales of Hoffman" and a DVD of "Swan Lake."
Who is Angelina Ballerina?
200
He tells his friend Mole that “There's nothing . . . absolutely nothing . . . half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.”
Who is River Rat? (Ratty, from "The Wind in the Willows")
300
Grateful mice sew all night--and use up all the twist--to make a waistcoat for this Beatrix Potter character.
Who is the tailor of Gloucester?
300
Matthias thinks that finding the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior is key to restoring peace at Redwall Abbey. His story launched a long series by this author.
Who is Brian Jacques?
300
In this folk song, a surprising suitor asks Miss Mousie for her hand in marriage, and she asks her Uncle Rat for his permission to wed.
What is "Frog Went A-Courtin' "?
300
There’s no missing this favorite color of Babymouse, the nonpareil daydreamer in the graphic novels of sister and brother Jennifer and Matthew Holm.
What is pink?
300
In the Harry Potter universe, Peter Pettigrew betrayed his best friends and caused their deaths, but his treachery went undetected while he was disguised as this rat.
Who is Scabbers?
400
In this 1939 novel by Robert Lawson, a mouse named Amos helps Franklin invent bifocals and a more efficient stove.
What is "Ben and Me"?
400
While fighting for Prince Caspian, Reepicheep loses that which is “the honor and the glory of a mouse” and begs Aslan to restore it.
What is his tail?
400
The moral of this fable by Aesop—in which the king of the jungle needs rescuing—is “Little friends may prove great friends.”
What is "The Lion and the Mouse"?
400
Author Edward Irving Wortis, better known as Avi, creates books about this admirable deer mouse and her family and friends in Dimwood Forest.
Who is Poppy?
400
Remy, a rodent and aspiring chef, stars in this movie named for a stew of tomatoes, eggplant, onions and herbs.
What is Ratatouille?
500
In Roald Dahl's novel, a boy wipes out all the witches in England (thus saving all the nation's children) by mixing this with Formula 86 Delayed-Action Mouse Maker.
What is chocolate?
500
This eyepatch-wearing mouse—a superhero from a British cartoon that parodies spy fiction—practices the ancient martial art of Kung Moggy.
Who is Danger Mouse?
500
Variants on this fable about relatives with differing temperaments—one urbane and one rusticated—have been created over the centuries by the likes of Aesop, Horace, LaFontaine, Beatrix Potter and Jan Brett.
What is "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse"?
500
This widowed field mouse befriends some former laboratory rats in the novel by Robert C. O'Brien. (When the movie version was made, the mouse family’s surname was changed so it wouldn’t infringe on the trademarked name of a flying toy.)
Who is Mrs. Frisby?
500
Robert Browning’s piper demands a thousand guilders in payment for luring the “Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, / Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats” from this town.