This is a great story about a mouse who has Crohn's disease and cant always make it outside to play with her new friend. In the library it is so important to have books of all kinds that include all illnesses, diseases, and disabilities so children can learn what other people may be going though. It also shares that not all illnesses are visible which so crucial to teach our kids that someone does not have to look like something is wrong with them for them to not be okay. This story has a really good lesson incorporated into it!

Thank you for the ARC. This book meant what expected but in a positive way. What a great story about friendship and a chronic illness. The illustrations were very cute as well. This would be educational for all, especially someone suffering with Chrones.

This is nice story with a serious message I think. It’s educational and would be perfect for a child suffering from Crohn’s disease. My child loved the illustrations too.

This is a book about the mouse who cannot eat cheese. It is a book about tolerance and acceptance of others in the face of chronic illnesses.

What a cute book and such a needed lesson! Poor Mouse can't eat cheese spends a lot of time feeling ill, and her new friend feels hurt because he doesn't understand that Mouse has a special condition. When they finally talk about it, their friendship is better and there is no judgment.
I spent years caring for someone with special dietary needs and people often didn't realize how important it was. Learning from a young age that people are different will help make people more accepting.
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

OK, so ignoring the fact owls should want to eat mice, this owl here – Alex – only wants to play with a new mouse friend, Maya. And on that subject, Maya the mouse should want to eat her welcome gift of cheese, right? Well there won't be any eating of either character or cheese here, and not much play together, for Maya has Crohn's disease. What these colourful, lively and easily-read pages will do is introduce a sleeping disease that doesn't really show up as a sickness or visible problem, and that can turn itself on and off to the extent that some days the sufferer is fine and others really under the weather and fatigued. This is a great way to discuss such illnesses, and Crohn's in particular, and it will work for anyone with such a problem, and for friends, siblings and classmates of them. And it's also a short story that a short reader would actually want to pick up for pleasure, at the same time. So there's little in the way of this getting a full five stars.