No Place Like Home

On the opening endpapers we see two paws and a nose emerging from the ground as Mole surfaces from his underground home to meet a beautiful, sunny day. This gives Mole cause to reflect on why he lives somewhere so dark and dull when he could enjoy so much better the brightness and beauty of the world if he lived overground. In his search for a new home he encounters Hedgehog, Squirrel and Rabbit, all of whom have suggestions for just the right home for Mole. But none of the suggestions is right, one choice is too drafty (sic), another too dangerous, another too wet, and when it starts to rain Mole, at last, realises the 'there's no place like home!'. This is a simple story illustrated with a softish focus in bright spring-time colours framed by darker opening and closing endpapers. Likely to appeal to very young children, it is cheerfully reassuring, and will provide an introduction to 'home' as a topic, and to animals and life in the woodland.