The first book in the best-selling Rip Squeak series is now available in a new edition with a parent-friendly shorter text and a new design. One morning, the family that lives in the little vacation cottage packs their bags and leaves. That's how Rip Squeak's day begins and soon the resourceful little mouse and his sister Jesse go off in search of great adventures and good things to eat. Along the way they meet Abbey, the little kitten who was left in the cottage by mistake, and Euripides, a frog with a dramatic flair. What they learn is that making friends is the greatest adventure of all. Leonard Filgate's richly detailed paintings-which hark back to the work of the great turn-of-the-century illustrators-combine with Susan Yost-Filgate's exciting story to bring this magical world to life.