The Chessire Cheese Cat

Skilley and Pip (most likely) on the front cover 

Review by Nathan:
The Cheshire Cheese Cat by Carmen Agra Deedy & Randall Wright is based in London during Victorian England.  Skilley is a London street cat who loves cheese-not mice (he won't even eat mice.)  But he ends up as the mouse catcher at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, a public house famous for it's cheese and for the writer that hangs out there: Charles Dickens.  Skilley and a mouse named Pip form a friendship.  Skilley agrees to catch mice but then release them unharmed if the mice give him cheese.  It seems like all will go well until a savage mouse eating cat named Pinch shows up.

Pinch and Skilley have never gotten along.  An uneasy peace settles over the public house with Pinch not being able to catch any mice.  But then Maldwyn, a wounded tower raven, is made known to
Skilley. Trying to hide the raven from Pinch becomes harder. Maldwyn must get back to the Queen of England before war starts with France. But little do the animals at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese know that the message that was sent to the raven master was mixed up and this put the inn's owner in danger. At the end Pinch and Maldwyn end up in a fight just as the Queen arrives.

To learn more about the book visit https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10545071-the-cheshire-cheese-cat
To learn more about Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Cheshire_Cheese

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