The Pocket Museum

About this book

When a whole week of rain cancels everything fun, seven year old Mina discovers that her grandfather Theo keeps a museum. Not a big museum with marble stairs and a gift shop. A small one. A biscuit tin, in fact, kept on the highest shelf of his workshop, with a label that says THE POCKET MUSEUM: EVERY OBJECT TELLS ITS STORY, ADMISSION ONE QUESTION. Mina pays her question. And one exhibit at a time, over seven rainy days, the tin opens its collection: a brass button that once belonged to a coat that sailed around the world, a marble that lost every game but one, a train ticket that was never supposed to be used, a feather from the slowest racing pigeon in history. At the very bottom of the tin waits a tiny key that even Grandpa cannot explain.