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Maria Ellis is the author of several books for children and one novel for adults. A former teacher, she now writes and illustrates full-time.
She lives in an enchanted forest close to Brussels in the chocolate-filled Kingdom of Belgium with her husband and son, surrounded by owls, ants and some very stubborn squirrels.
You can find out more about her and see her other books at www.maria-ellis.com,
where you can also download free coloring pages of her stories.
Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite
The Golden Cheese by Maria Ellis is a story of a little mouse who wants to get a golden cheese that will help him live in a palatial house with lots of money and respect from others. That is his biggest dream. But he is unable to make that happen and realizes that the void in his life can be filled only by a good friend.
The story carries a beautiful message of companionship and friendship and how it can alter your life and make you happy. Loneliness is an emotion that can actually make you unhappy and here the mouse gets rid of it finally and ends up being happy. Like any other children's story book, the book has many illustrations to make the story endearing and more understandable. The illustrations are bright and expressive. They take the story to another level.
The Golden Cheese is very vivid. The time when the mouse meets the lady mouse is the best part of the story. Apart from having a moral, the story has a lot of animal characters and children are introduced to different animals. The educational angle of the story is also done in a subtle manner without the children feeling the strain of it.
The bee, the cow, the cats, the squirrel, the sheep; they all have important roles in the story to make it more appealing to the child. Will the mouse be able to find the riches he is looking for and will he get the respect he craves from others?
