 Each week this month, as you know, I am reviewing a book that I disliked. This week, it's The Mouse and His Child. Here's the 30-second description. It's about a wind-up toy, a tin toy, in the form of a large mouse and a small mouse, holding hands, and their quest to become independent of one another, and self-winding. The story has all the things you would expect. They're getting thrown into a junkyard, getting washed into the sewers, meeting strange characters on the way, an evil rat pursuing them the whole time, and then a happy ending with them getting everything they wanted and a house for themselves, all that. And it stinks, cover to cover. I should have recorded this review more than a week ago, but I was actually struggling to put together a list of even four books that I really, really hated, but that I had read all the way through. I've known from the beginning what I'm going to review for week four, but for week three I was kind of stuck, and then late last week it finally dawned on me. Oh, yeah, there was that one book I super hated. This book is considered a children's classic, and I'm almost entirely alone in my opinion of it. And as you can tell, my opinion is that it should get zero stars. This book is truly awful. Every page of this book was just dreadful and dismal. There's one awful, horrible, dismal, depressing thing happens to these characters on and on and on for no reason. Every character in the book does and says things for no reason. There's no reason to care about these inanimate objects. By the end of the book, and I did read it all the way through, I was screaming to myself internally. END! END! Even the drawings are awful. They're just the most dismal, dark scratchings. I couldn't find any examples online other than this, but they're all like this. When I returned this book to the friend that I borrowed it from, I was shocked to find that Russell Hoban and his wife Lillian are the same creators of the Francis book series for children. These were some of my favorite books when I was a young child. I still have some of them. The stories are very entertaining. The art is charming. They are nothing like the mouse and his child. The one interesting thing that I took away from this book, and it's not a great thing, it's just an interesting thing, is the idea of the last visible dog. As you can see in this drawing, the label on the can has a drawing of Bonzo the dog holding a can of Bonzo dog food, which in turn has a picture of Bonzo holding a can of dog food, which in turn has a picture of Bonzo holding a can of dog food. It's an infinity label. And Hoban takes this literal idea of quote the last visible dog, unquote, and turns it into a philosophy, which I found interesting. This does not mean that I recommend you read the book just to learn about that philosophy. In fact, I don't recommend this book at all. I would never give a copy of this book to a child. I wouldn't give it to anybody. Please remember to press that like button. It helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time. Thanks for watching Science Fiction Book, TV, and movie reviews all the time, and please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.