false 3585011 1 <div><b>Courage takes a mouse on a wonderful journey</b><br><br><i>I had always been afraid of the forest, that dark and unknown </i><br><i>place at the farthest edge of my little world. At night I often dreamed of it and woke chilled with fear. The fear was there in the day, too, hidden inside me no matter what I did or where I went. One night the fear pressed so heavily on me that I could bear it no longer.</i><br><br>So begins a journey of discovery for a brave little mouse who decides he must leave the safety of home to explore the forest. The world he finds is not at all what he expected.<br><br>With luminous illustrations and graceful prose, <i>The Forest</i> broadens the reader&#8217;s world, speaking eloquently and reassuringly to every child who has ever felt afraid of the unknown.<br></div> 3627267 3 5 2002 The Forest total:3|5:1|4:2|3:0|2:0|1:0| 3 13 3 0 5 0 false false Wed Oct 28 09:56:12 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 09:56:12 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Feb 08 06:35:52 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 06:36:00 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 16 14:55:01 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 14:55:01 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3585011