This book is too simplistic, and while the change-is-good message is important, the delivery of the tale is poor. The story-in-a-story convention feels horribly forced and by mixing mice and littlepeople, the author took an easy out rather than work out the story's details.Because of poor writing, I have concluded from the author's story that: 1) It is good to let a friend starve rather than leave your own comfortable stash of cheese (how Haw left Hem). 2) It is best to act like a rodent.A better author would have delivered the message with more consistency and greater satisfaction.