This was given to me by a student of mine some years ago, for my daughter. I'm still amazed that he gave it to us, as it's one of the most astonishing, weird, wonderful works of children's literature that I've read. Pinchpenny Mouse is a sort of kulak, the one mouse in a town of wage laborers who accumulates rather than spends his money, but when the factory (run by cats) goes out of business, he buys up the factory and runs it as a sort of cooperative. Maybe. That there's a political message in the book is beyond question, but it's entertaingly weird and difficult to figure. ( )