She asked Tom if he knew but he preferred to keep quite about it although secretly he knew exactly who it was!ĭelightfully illustrated, it is a lovely story that is ideal for all book lovers and it is one to read aloud to the children. I feel sure you can guess who by and Mrs Forrester was so enthralled with the story and its illustrations that she used it regularly to read to the boys and girls who used the library.īut she always wondered who the mystery illustrator named Sam was. The next thing Tom knew was that Mrs Forrester was praising him for his story that she had found on her desk. He need not have worried for one came along when he had left his story behind on the library desk overnight. Meanwhile Tom began a story entitled 'The Shy One' but he had no illustrator. His hope was that whoever had left the cheese would go away and forget about him. So Tom thought a piece of cheese would entice the mouse out of the hole that he had found underneath the bookshelves.Īnd it worked, but Sam was one step ahead of Tom for he did not rise to the bait. The following morning Tom searched for somewhere that a mouse, for he had worked out that was what had made the footprints, could go but he had no luck spotting Sam but did spot his entrance. He stepped on an ink pad and left his tiny footprints on the top of the desk. They decided to leave the notebook on Tom's desk to see what happened.Īnd something did happen when Sam returned the following night and retrieved it. Tom found the notebook and showed it to Mrs Forrester who decided that the author must be their mystery writer who had written and illustrated, and left out for others to see, any number of books without being identified. In his haste to get back to his home he forgot his notebook, which was left behind. This particular night he was tired and he eventually fell asleep, to be awoken when the children started coming in the following morning.
Unfortunately there was an odd number of children so poor Tom had no partner Mrs Forrester therefore said that she would work with him.Īs was his wont, Sam entered the library once it was closed and he took with him his notebook as he was working on his own story. And the particular week in question, Mrs Forrester, the librarian, invited the children to work in pairs to write and illustrate their own story. Once a week the children met there for their writers and illustrators' club.
The only problem he had was that he was shy and so the children who used the library never met him. The bonus for Sam was that he loved to read. Sam the mouse seemed to live an idyllic existence for he was a library mouse, who lived inside a little hole behind the children's reference section of his local library.
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