OK, so ignoring the fact owls should want to eat mice, this owl here – Alex – only wants to play with a new mouse friend, Maya. And on that subject, Maya the mouse should want to eat her welcome gift of cheese, right? Well there won't be any eating of either character or cheese here, and not much play together, for Maya has Crohn's disease. What these colourful, lively and easily-read pages will do is introduce a sleeping disease that doesn't really show up as a sickness or visible problem, and that can turn itself on and off to the extent that some days the sufferer is fine and others really under the weather and fatigued. This is a great way to discuss such illnesses, and Crohn's in particular, and it will work for anyone with such a problem, and for friends, siblings and classmates of them. And it's also a short story that a short reader would actually want to pick up for pleasure, at the same time. So there's little in the way of this getting a full five stars.