I'm rather an impatient person, so I'm eager to fill my new place with as many interior bucket list (IBL) items as I can, as quickly as possible (bank manager/Pink House Husband look away now). A great sleep turns me into a morning person, a jump-out-of-bed, look-on-the-bright-side, Ferris Bueller-quoting kind of person. I do at least think I've spelled it correctly, though, because there's no squiggly red line beneath 'Carrera' (capital 'C'?

Corners and spine ends a little wrinkled and bumped only, VG bright and unmarked throughout, no ownership markings. This book is the epitome of a picture book your imagination can crawl into and wade around for an hour.

My 3rd grade teacher had this book in her class library and I checked it out so many times to just stare at the pictures, and their incredible detail. i bought this book many years ago for my children and the other day my daughter told me how much she really liked Mirabella mouse because she was an independent girl mouse who earned her own money, was creative and knew her own mind. The business has expanded considerably since then, and our main emphasis is on high quality highly sought after books in various fields - art; photography; modern 1st's; motoring and other niche/underground obsessions! More than 30 years ago, my Mom, a talented but unknown artist, picked this up in a garage sale for my girls, just toddlers at the time.

Henrietta is a world-famous architect, and the only mouse in the world who knows what makes a squirrel or a rabbit, a caterpillar or a frog feel at home.

Some light creasing to covers, faded water stain mark to upper edge of first pages, otherwise tight and unmarked. Author/Editor: George Mendoza Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Date: 1981 Format: Hardcover Condition: Good Condition Description: Dust jacket missing. Like Doris Burn’s 1965 classic ‘Andrew Henry’s Meadow,’ this picture book plays to the special fondness children have for imagining the neat features they’d incorporate were they to build houses of their own. A wonderful picture book where each page shows a unique house designed by Henrietta mouse for an animal client. Here I am in the bricks-and-mortar Pink House in South East London, where I live with the Pink House Husband (PHH) and our two small, semi-feral boys.

All the animals want to live in a house designed by Henrietta, because she is the only mouse in the world who understands exactly what makes a squirrel or a rabbit, a caterpillar or a frog feel at home.With clever features, like a trapdoor for Mole or a telescope platform for Owl, and the ideal placement, like high in a pine for Squirrel or inside a pear for Caterpillar, Henrietta Mouse’s houses are both practical and beautiful—in short, ingenious! Withdrawn Ex-Library, usual stamps and labels~~Quite Good reading copy 1st US edition hardback, surface tear to top 2cm of rear of spine, borrowing pouch inside front cover, labels to cover and stamps to end-papers, corners bumped and scuffed otherwise tight and secure. It's like Frank Lloyd Wright meets "The Secret of NIMH" - cutting edge, precise, rodent-laden, adorable.

And while I sense there might be a short reversal in this trend immediately after our move back to London, in the long term, the graph with 'going out out' on the up-and-down axis (school was a VERY long time ago, OK?I loved reading this book with my children, not only for the charming story of the architect mouse but also because it is beautifully illustrated by Doris Smith. The thing I love most about entertaining outside, is the lack of mess and clutter it creates inside! I truly enjoyed every whimsical architectural moment, from the underwater trout abode to the pig's palatial estate. On Instagram I’ve shared a 30-second Reel video of my home style and fashion sense from the 1990s to the present day. Anyway, an en suite would be splendid, because it would mean peeing in peace in the early hours (currently a 5.