Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Selected Poems | 1900 | Jennifer L. Holm | N/A |
| 2 | Once Upon a Messy Whisker | 2022 | Jennifer L. Holm | Buy |
| 3 | Besties! | 2023 | Jennifer L. Holm | Buy |
The BIG Adventures of Babymouse is the latest iteration of the Babymouse franchise, offering longer and more developed graphic novel adventures. Once Upon a Messy Whisker (2022) and Besties! (2023) continue to follow the imaginative mouse through bigger stories with expanded artwork.
Jennifer L. Holm and her brother Matthew Holm created the original Babymouse series, which ran for over twenty books of shorter graphic novels for young readers. The BIG Adventures format gives the stories more room to breathe, with longer page counts and fuller art. Once Upon a Messy Whisker plays with fairy tale elements, while Besties! focuses on friendship.
Kids who grew up reading the earlier Babymouse books can step up to these longer versions, and new readers can jump in without any background since each BIG Adventure tells its own story. The series is aimed at early elementary readers and keeps the humor and daydream sequences that made the original Babymouse popular.