Gus’ Fortunate Misfortune by Susan Pepka and illustrated by Joseph Cowman.

This book is about a mouse that finds himself in trouble.

Gus the mouse is searching for some food and finds himself trapped in a box by a mouse. Trapped in the box and nowhere to go Gus is feeling anxious and afraid.

Gus, however finds some courage while trapped inside the box and calms himself down and tries to look for a way out.

But before he kind find a way out the box is picked up and taken to another place that Gus is not familiar with.

In this new place where the lid is now opened and Gus is able to escape from the box that he found himself trapped in.

Gus is still feeling the pangs of hunger. Gus goes in search of some food to eat and satisfy his hunger.

However, Gus again finds himself facing another obstacle in finding some food. A human now stands in his way. Gus is almost stepped on by the human, Gus tries to run and hide but he gets stuck in a door.

But the human backs off and puts out some chips for the mouse. Gus takes the chips and eats filling his belly.

Gus then goes in search of some water. But the water that he finds is not where he can reach it.

With some determination Gus gets the water that satisfies his thirst. While searching for the water Gus realizes that the human that almost that stepped on him, was now watching him trying to get to the water.

This book is mainly about determination, patience, and reaching your goals.

I think that the author should have had a page for some focus words and another page providing some questions for parents to communicate with their children.

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