The Mouse Who Wanted to Marry

by Doris Orgel

A young mouse searching for the perfect husband learns that sometimes the best choice is right under her own whiskers! A Bank Street Ready-To-Read book.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1993

About the author

Doris Orgel is a children's writer. She was born in Vienna, Austria. As a child, she and her family fled to Yugoslavia and finally the U.S. during the rise of the Nazi party in Europe. She attended Radcliffe College from 1946 too 1948, and graduated cum laude from Barnard College in 1950.

In her career, Ms. Orgel has written and translated several fairy and folk tales, as well as served as a translator for other authors. Prior to her work as a children's writer, Orgel was in magazine and book publishing. Her first original book, Sarah’s Room (1963) was published under the pseudonym Doris Adelberg. It was also republished in England and in Switzerland in German. In 1960, Ms. Orgel received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for her translation of Willhelm Hauff's Dwarf Long-Nose (1960). Her book The Devil in Vienna (1978) received a Phoenix Award Honor in 1998. Ms. Orgel has also worked as a children’s book reviewer for "The New York Times".

She is married to Dr. Shelley Orgel; has three children: Paul, Laura, and Jeremy; two daughters-in-law: Sharon Lamb and Ling Chen Orgel; three grandchildren: Willy, Jennifer, and Julian; and three granddogs: Woof, Buster, and Otto. She lives in New York City.


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Reviews

[Bryanna Rorie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this with my niece and she and I had a good laugh while reading this story. She loved “hearing” and seeing all the different characters (that normally don’t talk in the time real world) and guess what they were going to say to the mouse and her proposals. She had to marry the strongest man and goes on a search for him. Each one she looks for said man to marry and each send one she speaks with, she’s finds someone else who seems stronger. The illustrations is super cute and can be very interactive with. Spoiler: she finds her man.

[Alicia Evans · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mouse decides that she wants to marry and that she needs the strongest male to be her husband. She goes off and asks the sun if he will marry her but he refuses because he is not the strongest. He directs her to someone else and the plot continues. I read this book as a kid and it was super fun to reread though I'm not totally sure about the message these days.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is based on a clever folktale I've seen before, but of course in a 'Ready-to-Read' there's no note to remind me of the the original title. Anyway, it's the one where the cloud is stronger than the sun, because it can hide the sun, and the wind is stronger than the cloud, because it can blow the cloud away, etc. Orgel retold it gracefully (and in the easy to read form) and Hannon's illustrations are cute and perfectly suitable.

Simple, yes. But I would have loved it when I was a child and I bet your 5 yo will like it too.