FREE: 4 Copies Island of the Skog NEW 5-8 Y/O

I can't even remember how old I was when I first saw this book, but the illustrations are excellent, and the story just as exciting every time you read it again. The jest of the story is that a group of mice set sail in a model ship in search of freedom, and eventually reach the "Island of the Skog" which is the supposed territory of "one Skog." The lead mouse has an aggressive approach to the skog, and fires the model ship's cannonballs as a warning to the skog. The skog, in turn, reacts by disguising himself as a huge monster and menacing the new colony of mice. Eventually the mice devise an ingenious trap for the skog, and one night they decide to put it into effect. It works for a while, and then the mice discover who the skog really is. Besides the quality of the story here, there are some genuine lessons to be learned about human relations, respect, and kindness which make the book stand out within the category of children's literature.