Miss Bianca, after all, is a poet too, and in any case she is due to travel any day now by diplomatic pouch to Norway. However, it is precisely Miss Bianca that the Prisoners’ Aid Society picks for the job of rescuing a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the legendarily dreadful Black Castle (we all know, don’t we, that mice are the friends of prisoners, tending to their needs in dungeons and oubliettes everywhere). Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose, the mouse to dispatch on an especially challenging and extraordinarily perilous mission. Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador’s son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. The basis for the beloved 1977 Disney movie, this fantastical tale of 2 mice on a mission to save a Norwegian poet is sure to delight "Miss Sharp’s delicate and sophisticated humor is good fun for wise children from age 10 to 100." - Los Angeles Times
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