Like with Volume 1, I read to my eager and happy son, who loved it as much as the first, and was just as eager to get to the third volume. (We finished it long after his bedtime and he was yawning but still was upset when I told him we’d do the third book the following day.) I liked how the range of styles and approaches expanded. One of the “tales” is in the form of a song, and I am curious to try see if I can figure out a way of making a nice recording out of it! …

My son took an interest in this boxed set, which I got for my wife a couple of years ago. So… I sat down and read Volume 1 to him in a single sitting. He adored it, and was crestfallen that we couldn’t read Vol. 2 immediately. (But by that point—after about an hour and forty minutes straight of doing voices—my throat was getting a bit hoarse and it was his bedtime.) This series consistes of short Mouse Guard-related tales by other authors. They’re lore set in the world, but aren’t canonical events so much as folktales, legends, and fairy …