Rastamouse and the Crucial Plan

Rastamouse is the leader of the Easy Crew team of crime-fighting special agent mice. Scratchy, the female agent, does a tough job alongside her male colleagues. When the President needs help, he calls in the Easy Crew to solve the mystery of the disappearing cheese. A ruthless thief is stealing all the cheese from the entire city. He even robs some ‘poor little orphan mice’.

The Easy Crew abandon their music making and race to the rescue. They devise a cunning, daring plan to catch the thief. Bandulu the cheese thief gives up without a struggle, makes recompense, and they all live happily ever after. Although the storyline is not very convincing, the rhyming style rolls it along and is entertaining. This book can work well read by an adult, as the use of language and concepts will be difficult for the very young reader. The sprinkling of dialect is easy to manage because it is phonetic. With the clear, well-defined simple illustrations, this first title from a new publisher will work well as a shared read with the early years.