Miss Tillie and Miss Bee are an odd pair that decide to buy a huge block of cheese that was a bargain. They find they need a cat to guard the cheese from mice, then they need some milk to feed the cat so they buy a cow and so on and so on. Kids will enjoy the humor in the book, but may need all of the idioms explained to them. Good for practicing inferential reading. ( )

Miss Tillie and Miss Bee live alone at he top of a hill. Miss Bee craves more companionship and one day buys a huge wheel of cheese. Along with the cheese comes mice and if you've got mice you need a cat and then you need a cow. The cheese brings these 2 friends the companionship they have wanted all along. Here is a great website about Eve Bunting: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=2210 ( )