by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm
ages: 7+
First sentence: “The show is about to begin.”

Alysa said it was her favorite so far, and I have to agree. Totally. Completely. Awesome. (Especially if you love musicals.)

Babymouse is awesome no matter what she does… and in this one, she tries out for the school musical, getting the understudy part. LOVED the hedgehog Henry Higgins (yes, he’s British). He totally cracked me up. But the best part was that they (including the narrator, in a brilliant spoof of Modern Major General) kept breaking into song. The fun, for me, was identifying all the references to musicals (only two I didn’t get). Totally hilarious.

C loved it, too, especially the narrator. I’m not sure she got all the references — she hasn’t seen Grease or Phantom of the Opera — but she thought it was a fun book.

But what we’re both REALLY looking forward to is the next one this fall: Babymouse: Dragonslayer. Awesome.