This is the fifth adventure for Marvin, Raymond and Fats; three mice Jean Van Leeuwen found in the Macy's Department Store toy department living in a doll house on a top shelf.
In this tail -- tale -- the trio find themselves rooming in the café of Guggenheim Museum. (Marvin insists on calling it the Googlestein Museum.) There is plenty to eat and plenty to do. Marvin is determined to rollerblade down the Museum's famous corkscrew ramp. Fats has discovered an artistic side and wants to display his work. Raymond must figure out how to keep Marvin's valuable brain intact and Fats' round self from being caught by the exterminator and yet still hang his pictures. And you thought there was nothing to do in a museum except look at art.
Here are some pictures of Marvin, Fats and Raymond:
Marvin is determined to risk life and tail to rollerblade into fame.
Here's Fats using the materials at hand (chips and mustard, among other things) to make his napkin art.
Sneaking Fats' art out of his studio (the cafe).
published by Phyllis Fogelman Books / Dial Books for Young Readers, 2003
198 pages, grades 3 to 5, isbn 0-8037-2765-8
