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PHIL Your Shelves with these Rodent Reads

Because who doesn't like to celebrate Groundhog's Day with a top-notch rodent title? Or let's be real - small mammals. We like to be accurate here, and we love lots of non-rodent small mammals too. This list includes a mixture of adult and children's titles.

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  • Redwall

    the Graphic Novel

    Jacques, Brian,
    Matthias, a young mouse, is determined to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior, which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy their enemy.
    Graphic Novel, 2007New York : Philomel Books, [2007] — T GN REDWALL
  • Reporter Vera Vixen (a fox) investigates the murder of a toad, uncovering secrets and danger in a community where woodland creatures live human-like lives.
    Book, 2022New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2022. — BLACK SHADY HOLLOW #1
  • A lab rat instilled with human genes uses his supersized intelligence to engineer his escape into the world outside the lab.
    Book, 2022New York : Union Square & Co., [2022] — F MOA
  • Groundhog is shocked and a bit ashamed when he discovers that he does not have innate weather-predicting gifts, especially when his mis-forecast ruins the spring carnival.
    Book, 2023New York : The Dial Press, 2023. — E CELEBRATIONS GROUN TOW
  • Sedaris presents a collection of animal-themed essays. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families.
    Book, 2010New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010. — FIC SED
  • After Groundhog Gregory gets up, sees his shadow, and everyone knows winter will last six more weeks, they all return home to take naps. So, Gregory decides to...wake them up!
    Book, 1997New York : Golden Books, [1997] — E GOLDEN BOOK
  • A group of rabbits flee their warren to escape destruction and find a new home, facing numerous dangers and challenges along the way
    Book, 2001New York : Perennial, [2001] — FIC ADA
  • A widowed mouse visits a unique colony of rats looking for help.
    Book, 1971New York, : Atheneum, 1971. — J FIC OBR
  • Something has murdered Saul Garamond's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul's prison cell and leads him to freedom: a shadow called King Rat.
    Book, 1999New York : Tor, [1999] — FIC MIÉVILLE
  • The Tale of Despereaux

    Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

    DiCamillo, Kate
    The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
    Book, 2003Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, [2003] — J DIC
  • A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.
    Book, 2000New York, W. Morrow, 2000, 2006, 2017. — J FICTION CLEARY
  • When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him.
    Book, 2004Orlando : Harcourt, 2004. — KEYES
  • Firmin

    Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

    Savage, Sam, 1940-2019,
    A rat runt in 1960s Boston learns to read.
    Book, 2006Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2006. — FIC SAV