One spring morning in Appleshire when the daffodils, hyacinths and tulips are smiling sleepily, Francine mouse sets out to deliver Scarlett Squirrel's birthday cake. Francine wearing her new shoes dyed green by grasshoppers and tied up with the threads from spider's web, trips over a hamper, and her cake falls to the ground in a 'rain’ of curvy currants, cheerful cherries and squishy sultanas.
Francine begins to cry, and her tears fall through the ground to the tunnel where her friend Mackintosh mole is making his way to buy a new jacket. Her tears become a shower for him to wash the dried up mud from his neck.
Mackintosh want to help, and he has a magic book- a proper one that smells of bad eggs. Kind hearted Mackintosh badly mistakes the list of ingredients, confusing for instance, the French word for eggs , 'oeufs’ with 'earth’. What they create puts all their lives in danger.
Through a thrilling sequence of mishaps, adventure, and comedy, Francine, Mackintosh, and Victor vole all work together to try and save Scarlett's party from disaster.
Each December, as the temperatures fall, a frost fair takes place at the command of Queen Frostiana. For the community of little mice, it is a time of great excitement and fun. But one year, a magical, little mouse called Mistletoe-Merry becomes separated from her family due to the mayhem caused by the Spirit of Winter Mischief.
She befriends young Henry and the two set off on a series of daring adventures to try and find her family. Can they find them in time before the ice melts? Will a thrilling rescue attempt of a former enemy put all their lives in danger?
A heart-warming tale to delight children with magic, friendship, and forgiveness in the coldest time of the year.
There are signs in Appleshire that spring is waiting close by. Mackintosh has met his good friends the purple crocuses when they returned the other day at the edge of Dark Shadows Wood. He found ........
Welcome to the snow-dressed village of Appleshire and to my kitchen. I am Francine and my baking has quite a reputation and so as Jack Frost is leaping about ready to snatch at the paws of the unwary ........
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