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Adventuremice #3
Mice on the Ice
The Frost Fair is coming! But when a surprise snowfall puts the mice's plans at risk, it's up to Pedro and the team to save the Fair and bring joy to the town! Guaranteed to warm hearts everywhere.
- GenresChildrens
109 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2025
About the author
Philip Reeve
146 books2,750 followersPhilip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for a number of years while also co-writing, producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects.
Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons for around forty children's books, including the best-selling Horrible Histories, Murderous Maths and Dead Famous series.
Railhead, published by Oxford University Press, will be published in the UK in October 2015
Pugs of the Frozen North, written with Sarah McIntyre, is out now.
Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons for around forty children's books, including the best-selling Horrible Histories, Murderous Maths and Dead Famous series.
Railhead, published by Oxford University Press, will be published in the UK in October 2015
Pugs of the Frozen North, written with Sarah McIntyre, is out now.
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Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews
September 22, 2024
My favourite of the AdventureMice books so far!
A great wintery story with gorgeous illustrations and a lot of fun. This series is going to hold a special place in our hearts, I can feel it.
Son as always loved it and we looked forward to reading a chapter before bed each night.
A great wintery story with gorgeous illustrations and a lot of fun. This series is going to hold a special place in our hearts, I can feel it.
Son as always loved it and we looked forward to reading a chapter before bed each night.
November 19, 2024
2.5*
Not such a fan of the premise of this one. It's much less wholesome than the first two. It is basically about these mice that run a fair selling produce they have stolen from a café and they need the Adventure Mice to help them across the ice and to also help them steal the produce because the café owners have bought a new cat to stop the mice stealing all their food. Seen as the Adventure Mice are an organisation to help rescue and protect mice, it seems a misuse of their power to help other mice steal. I was sort of rooting for the cat. Now I know they're mice and stealing food is what they do, but because they've got this whole little anthropomorphic mice community going on and the previous two books were very much about helping other animals/races, you feel like you hold the characters to a higher standard than your average thieving mouse.
I did like that they all made their own produce in the end instead (albeit probably using stolen ingredients), and that the book praises creativity and finding solutions to tricky problems. And as always, the illustrations are beautiful.
I would just rather one of the central plots not be about stealing.
Not such a fan of the premise of this one. It's much less wholesome than the first two. It is basically about these mice that run a fair selling produce they have stolen from a café and they need the Adventure Mice to help them across the ice and to also help them steal the produce because the café owners have bought a new cat to stop the mice stealing all their food. Seen as the Adventure Mice are an organisation to help rescue and protect mice, it seems a misuse of their power to help other mice steal. I was sort of rooting for the cat. Now I know they're mice and stealing food is what they do, but because they've got this whole little anthropomorphic mice community going on and the previous two books were very much about helping other animals/races, you feel like you hold the characters to a higher standard than your average thieving mouse.
I did like that they all made their own produce in the end instead (albeit probably using stolen ingredients), and that the book praises creativity and finding solutions to tricky problems. And as always, the illustrations are beautiful.
I would just rather one of the central plots not be about stealing.
December 23, 2024
A super quick highly illustrated chapter book that would be perfect as a transition from picture books.
The book is very wholesome with cute mice trying to save their winter fair! As an adult I really enjoyed the story and it would provide lots of discussion opportunities with younger readers about helping, doing the right thing, traditions etc
The book is very wholesome with cute mice trying to save their winter fair! As an adult I really enjoyed the story and it would provide lots of discussion opportunities with younger readers about helping, doing the right thing, traditions etc
October 1, 2025
Kidlet declares this his favorite one so far, because it has a step-by-step guide for drawing Ivy at the end. Personally I’m not as convinced — the sailing parts are a little dull, and the message of “stealing is bad… because we got caught” could have used a rethink — but eh, it’s still a reasonably fun outing.
October 30, 2023
5yo says: I think they [The Adventuremice] are really cool and even though they are small they always save the day. She thinks they are nice people.
January 25, 2024
A precious hilarious space adventure!
February 9, 2024
These Adventuremice stories are just so darn cute! Gentle adventures with lots of charming pictures , great reads for early readers just moving in to chapter books.
March 21, 2025
We love these books and this one was just as good as the last 2!
June 19, 2026
My little one loves these. So much fun to read aloud! I daresay I like them, too :D
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