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The Adventures of Sophie Mouse #11
The Mouse House
At a birthday party, Sophie feels jealous when her friend gets a present that she’s been wanting in this eleventh book of The Adventures of Sophie Mouse series!
Sophie is so excited to go to her friend Ellie’s birthday party. She loves birthday parties. She always paints her friends beautiful cards and she loves playing party games. When Ellie gets a mouse house—a little house with teeny-tiny mouse dolls and teeny-tiny furniture—Sophie tries to be happy for her friend but she actually feels very jealous. She’s always wanted a mouse house! As Sophie tries to deal with these feelings, she learns that not everybody gets what they want and not everybody wants what they have!
Sophie is so excited to go to her friend Ellie’s birthday party. She loves birthday parties. She always paints her friends beautiful cards and she loves playing party games. When Ellie gets a mouse house—a little house with teeny-tiny mouse dolls and teeny-tiny furniture—Sophie tries to be happy for her friend but she actually feels very jealous. She’s always wanted a mouse house! As Sophie tries to deal with these feelings, she learns that not everybody gets what they want and not everybody wants what they have!
128 pages, Paperback
Published August 15, 2017
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Poppy Green
50 books83 followersPoppy Green can talk to animals! Unfortunately, they never talk back to her. So she started writing in order to imagine what they might say and do when humans aren’t watching. Poppy lives on the edge of the woods in Connecticut, where her backyard is often a playground for all kinds of wildlife: birds, rabbits, squirrels, voles, skunks, deer, and the occasional wild turkey.
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June 26, 2022
Tiny Craig has found a new favorite series!
August 6, 2020
Many young readers will be able to relate to Sophie Mouse's struggles in this installment of the winsome series. Sophie sees an adorable one-of-a-kind handmade dollhouse when she is out shopping for a birthday present for her friend. It's too expensive for a child-to-child gift, but Sophie wants the dollhouse for herself. But, it turns out her friend's parents got the dollhouse for their daughter's birthday. Sophie struggles with her feelings of jealousy while trying to remain a good friend. At first, she doesn't really feel like helping her friend decorate the house but she ultimately enjoys herself as she designs the furniture for the dollhouse at her friend's request and they play together happily. At the end, Sophie's dad says he will make her her own dollhouse (I'm not sure how I felt about that part--on one hand, I would have liked it to have been enough for Sophie to enjoy her friend's dollhouse sometimes without getting everything she wanted, but I also know that children will love the wish fulfillment and it was sweet of the dad to make her a house).
February 10, 2025
With charming illustrations, loveable characters, and age-appropriate lessons on thoughtfulness, friendship, and forgiveness, this was another delightful tale in The Adventures of Sophie Mouse series!
May 10, 2023
I just love these books. In this one, Sophie is shopping for her friend's birthday and see's a dollhouse that she falls in love with. She can't stop thinking about it and then her friend gets it as a gift for her birthday. She's so jealous she starts acting unkindly. She realizes what she's doing and apologizes and its so sweet.
December 7, 2020
Read aloud to the younger kids. This may have been my favorite in the series so far. I just loved how sweet Sophie worked through real problems, issues that all kids will relate to, frustration at mistakes, embarrassment, and jealously if friends. I love how Sophie made up with her friend by taking initiative and being kind. Love this series so much.
December 19, 2024
So far this is my favorite book of the series. Where most of the Sophie Mouse books have wholesome stories that are lovable this one actually had morals covered. Jealousy and covetousness are expounded upon in such a simplistic and resonating manor that all my children could understand and relate. The solution given was explored thoroughly for the age range of this series. Well done Poppy Green, more like this one please!
October 13, 2024
Ok, this one is my favourite out of the series so far.
January 23, 2021
My 6yo: 5, only I really, REALLY, REALLY wish I could do 100!
I disliked Sophie being a little jealous about the Mouse House, but I was glad that she made it up and she helped her friend make the furniture. (And she got her own eventually.) I liked how she got her own and helped her friend and told her friend sorry. I think it was just like a Calico Critter house.
Mom: The Mouse House finds Sophie working through some feelings of disappointment and jealousy (and also the ramifications of a bad day at school) that cause her to respond unkindly to her friend. She quickly realizes she was wrong and apologizes. As we see her working through those feelings, we also see her using her creativity to make a special birthday gift and create tiny doll house furniture. Learning to navigate those feelings of jealousy and disappointment and work through them without hurting others in the process is important, and I'm glad Sophie's here to help my little girl do that. 💜
I disliked Sophie being a little jealous about the Mouse House, but I was glad that she made it up and she helped her friend make the furniture. (And she got her own eventually.) I liked how she got her own and helped her friend and told her friend sorry. I think it was just like a Calico Critter house.
Mom: The Mouse House finds Sophie working through some feelings of disappointment and jealousy (and also the ramifications of a bad day at school) that cause her to respond unkindly to her friend. She quickly realizes she was wrong and apologizes. As we see her working through those feelings, we also see her using her creativity to make a special birthday gift and create tiny doll house furniture. Learning to navigate those feelings of jealousy and disappointment and work through them without hurting others in the process is important, and I'm glad Sophie's here to help my little girl do that. 💜
November 12, 2017
Green, Poppy The Mouse House (Sophie Mouse #11), illustrated by Jennifer A. Bell, 116 pages. CHAPTER BOOK. Little Simon, 2017. $6. Content: G.
Sophie has been invited to a birthday party. When she shops for a present, she something she really wants for herself. When Ellie Squirrels parents give her that gift at the party, Sophie is jealous and doesn’t know how to stop her bad feelings.
What a great little chapter book about dealing with jealous feelings! Poppy Green knows her stuff when it comes to how emotions color all the aspects of our lives. I have never read a Sophie Mouse book before. I hope all the rest are just as good.
EL (K-3) - ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
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Sophie has been invited to a birthday party. When she shops for a present, she something she really wants for herself. When Ellie Squirrels parents give her that gift at the party, Sophie is jealous and doesn’t know how to stop her bad feelings.
What a great little chapter book about dealing with jealous feelings! Poppy Green knows her stuff when it comes to how emotions color all the aspects of our lives. I have never read a Sophie Mouse book before. I hope all the rest are just as good.
EL (K-3) - ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
https://kissthebook.blogspot.com/2017...
November 29, 2017
A fun, sweet little story. The first of this series I'd ever seen, it was the pictures that caught my attention as I was checking them in at work. At some point, I'll be looking up the rest of the series. Also keeping it in mind for some girls in my family, for future presents.
August 17, 2022
Appropriate for: all ages!
My 5 year old daughter loves Sophie Mouse and so do I. Almost every page has a picture and every book has a good message. This book dealt with jealousy and how to cope with it.
My 5 year old daughter loves Sophie Mouse and so do I. Almost every page has a picture and every book has a good message. This book dealt with jealousy and how to cope with it.
March 31, 2024
So good
Helped her get over being jealous and it was a great, character building type of story. We liked it so much, that we were sad when it ended but it ended with a fun surprise ending and we are so happy for Sophie mouse, as a character. She is so cute.
Helped her get over being jealous and it was a great, character building type of story. We liked it so much, that we were sad when it ended but it ended with a fun surprise ending and we are so happy for Sophie mouse, as a character. She is so cute.
January 21, 2025
Sophie Mouse has a friend that got a doll house she wanted. She gets jealous and has to work her way through the emotions. I liked how easy and relatable the story was and the illustrations in this were some of my favorites.
December 31, 2025
This was so good. My kids were very invested in the story, AND they were learning a valuable lesson on jealousy at the same time. This is my favorite little kids series of all time. I’m so glad I randomly stumbled across them on Amazon last year.
December 3, 2018
These are such great little books, with good stories, as well as some real things to talk about.
October 29, 2019
My 5 year old son Calvin and I love these books!
June 10, 2020
My daughter loved it. Now she wants daddy to make a mouse house with her !
February 16, 2021
I love all the Sophie mouse book. They entertain me every day. ❤️
August 5, 2021
Interesting story. Daughter loved it and it's a nice lesson on jealousy and feeling sorry.
February 15, 2022
I really enjoy reading this series to my young grandchild, and she loves them too. This book deals with jealousy, and apologies in a very relatable way.
March 3, 2022
Love this series, but this one is my favorite.
March 18, 2022
One of my favorites in the series.
September 23, 2022
Sweet entry in a long series of early readers starring Sophie the mouse and her set. Dear illustrations by Jennifer A. Bell.
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January 17, 2023These books are a favorite of my 5 year old
March 21, 2023
This book was inspiring to me. Can you please write more books like this?
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
July 8, 2023
My daughter enjoyed this book and I thought it was cute.
April 10, 2024
Très mimi ! <3
June 30, 2024
Love it!
August 27, 2024
"It's so fun because it's just so fun! The good thing about is that I love Sophie Mouse. Forever Amen"
October 10, 2022
8yr old rating. I think Sophie Mouse is too young for her at this point.
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