To listen to a song from this poem or sing along with the song - go to SING ALONG at the website Primary School Poems created for children by Audrey Coatesworth

Music by Toby Huelin ( as a young teenager he used the name Jamie Izak) and sung by Ella.

Picture painted by David S Earnshaw - eldest brother of the author.

Letter To Mrs Mouse

Mrs Mouse could I request

You do not use my home

Please keep out of all my rooms

Where you’re not free to roam

When you ran along the pipes

In my room the other night

I nearly fell out of bed

You gave me such a fright

I thought the cupboard was secure

But yet you made me jump

When I opened up the door

And I gave my head a bump

The apples in the larder

That I placed upon the shelf

Are not put there for you to eat

I want them for myself

Your habits quite disgust me

You smell and you‘re not clean

You may be called a field mouse

But I don’t know where you’ve been

If you will stay out of doors

You can use the garden shed

In winter it will keep you warm

And I will give you bread.

I will not use a mouse trap

I could not hurt you like that

But if you don’t heed my word

I might just get a cat !

Poem copyright ACoatesworth 2007