Water
When a book's called Secrets at Sea, it's no surprise that water is pretty important—and there's tons of water imagery all over this book. Here are a handful of splish-splashy moments that croppe...
Time
If there's one thing we know for sure, it's that mice aren't great with time. Helena tells us about how poor she is at keeping track of time over and over and over again… and then she tells us ju...
Clothes
Were you as surprised as we were to learn that the Cranston mice wear clothes? And were you as nervous as us that the Cranston humans would wear the wrong clothes to Princess Louise's party? The tr...
Flying
When it comes to flying, no one does it like Helena Cranston. Wait a second… isn't she a mouse? Yep, so no wings on this critter… but she can still soar with the best of them. Somehow Helena ke...