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Summary: SPECTRUM Children's Book Club Book of the Year (2002)
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With two books published 2002 -- Time Stops for No Mouse (January) and The Sands of Time (September) -- The Hermux Tantamoq Adventures are SPECTRUM's Favorite New Book of 2002.Michael Hoeye has created a charming, 1920s-ish world where rodents rule. At the center of these delicious tales is the meek Hermux Tantamoq. Hermux, who's half house mouse and half field mouse, is an expert watchmaker and mechanical wiz who happens to have a pet ladybug named Terfle. Each night before bed, Hermux takes the time to enter into his journal all the things for which he was thankful that day. Hoeye compliments his lead character with a clever supporting cast of characters and constructs stories that pay homage to old movies and invoke the feeing of perhaps an Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle tale. While there is something charmingly old-fashioned about the flavor of the books, Hoeye infuses his tales with wit, satire, and social commentaries that are spot-on for today's reader. While the publisher states that Michael Hoeye's playful adventure/ mysteries are young adult fiction, these books are excellent for both younger audiences and adults. They are good for younger audiences for two reasons. First, they make great bedtime stories for those who read to their children. Second, Hoeye's easy, uncomplicated style, gentle story lines, and short chapters make these books ideal for a child to transition from chapter books to novels. At the same, time the underlying wit and social commentary, mentioned above, gives the books an added layer to be enjoyed by the adult reader or the older child who returns to the books. These are books that should become generational family favorites, so the investment in hard cover editions is worth the expense. - K. B. SHAW, Publisher -
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Summary: Hits with the same bang as before
Review: I, too, was worried that the sequel wouldn't be as good as the amazing Time Stops for No Mouse, but it hit with the same, if not better, bang as before. There seems to be no lack of Michael Hoeye's gripping writing style in either of the two books. In this particular book, Hermux (the main mouse character) encounters a squirrel, Birch Tenintrotter, who claims to have evidence of a lost civilization of CATS. To be precise, it was a want-ad from a lost civilization of cats. The citizens of Pinchester (Hermux's city) are small animals, mostly rodents, so they don't appreciate cats very much. Intrigued, Hermux and Birch, along with another mouse, named Linka, set out to find the desert civilization of cats, but they find more than whirling sands to stop them in The Sands of Time.
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Summary: One of the Best Sequel of All Books I've Read
Review: Michael Hoeye creates a faboulus tale that interweaves with with a world of fantasy. An excently written book of imagination that makes even the reader able to "Think Outside The Box."
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Summary: WONDERFUL, GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Michael Hoeye does it again, creating a new adventure for the likeable Hermux Tantamoq, a watchmaking mouse. Hoeye uses such vivid detail and wit, making it nearly impossible to put this book down. In this book, Hermux's friend Mirrin Stenrill is having an exhibition at the local museum of her portraits of cats. Obviously, cats are not a popular topic when it comes to Pinchester, a city of mice, rats, and other rodents. No one really believes that they actually existed. That is, until a chipmunk named Birch comes into Hermux's store with a map of which he claims to be that of an ancient cat civilization. Before long, Hermux, Birch, and daredevil aviatrix Linka (who Hermux has a crush on) find themselves on the trail of this lost civilization. Hoeye gives a funny, happy ending. I can't wait for the third in the series!
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Summary: SPECTRUM Children's Book Club Recommendation
Review: Michael Hoeye has created a charming, 1920s-ish world where rodents rule. At the center of these delicious tales is the meek Hermux Tantamoq. Hermux, who's half house mouse and half field mouse, is an expert watchmaker and mechanical wiz who happens to have a pet ladybug named Terfle. Each night before bed, Hermux takes the time to enter into his journal all the things for which he was thankful that day. Hoeye compliments his lead character with a clever supporting cast of characters and constructs stories that pay homage to old movies and invoke the feeing of perhaps an Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle tale. While there is something charmingly old-fashioned about the flavor of the books, Hoeye infuses his tales with wit, satire, and social commentaries that are spot-on for today's reader. While the publisher states that Michael Hoeye's playful adventure/ mysteries are young adult fiction, these books are excellent for both younger audiences and adults. They are good for younger audiences for two reasons. First, they make great bedtime stories for those who read to their children. Second, Hoeye's easy, uncomplicated style, gentle story lines, and short chapters make these books ideal for a child to transition from chapter books to novels. At the same, time the underlying wit and social commentary, mentioned above, gives the books an added layer to be enjoyed by the adult reader or the older child who returns to the books. These are books that should become generational family favorites, so the investment in hard cover editions is worth the expense. - KB Shaw, Publisher
SPECTRUM Children's Book Club
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Summary: THIS IS THE GRATEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This little book continues the captivating adventures of Hermux Tantamoq. If you enjoyed `Time Waits for No Mouse,' then you'll love this too - and even if you haven't read about Hermux before, this is the kind of sequel that doesn't require an in-depth knowledge of the first book.
Talking mice aren't to everyone's taste. In recent years, anthropomorphised creatures have become much less fashionable - but this book may change your mind. However, I think the cover-art on both books has let the author down, as the modern, stylised, garish pictures give no hint of the charm and whimsy within.
The book is divided into many small chapters of 1 - 3 pages, which makes it the ideal bedtime story book. To ensure pleasant dreams, I prescribe one chapter before bedtime, to be taken every night until completed.
May your tail grow long - and all your squeaks be little ones!
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Summary: The Sands of Time
Review: Watchmaker-extraordinaire and resident cheese lover, Hermux Tantamoq, is in for the surprise of his life, when his good friend, Mirrin Stentrill, reveals the scandalous work being featured in her new art show: cats! After all, mice don't want to hear about cats, even if they never actually existed, and the entire town of Pinchester is up in arms over the showing. Then a long lost stranger known as Birch Tentintrotter, a chipmunk, visits Hermux and lets him in on a very important secret: cats DID exist, and Birch has the facts to prove it. So, on a split second decision, Birch, Hermux, and he lovely aviatrix, Linka Perflinger, set out to the desert to find the lost Kingdom of Cats. While there, Hermux learns many new things about the history of mice, things different than what he was taught as a child, and he begins wondering whether it is really necessary to bring these truths forward.
As a fan of the first Hermux Tantamoq novel, TIME STOPS FOR NO MOUSE, I knew that I had to check out Michael Hoeye's latest contribution to the series, THE SANDS OF TIME, and I was not at all disappointed. Young Hermux is as adorable as ever, in his quest to find out about the lost civilization known as cats; and his sidekicks, both new and old, are perfect. The wonderful story that has been crafted will delight readers of all ages, and keep them begging for more Tantamoq. A must have!
Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper
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