Vot uzhe mnogo pokoleniy myshey zhivut v malenkih domikah na Ezhevichnoy polyane, pryachas oto vseh v kornyah i stvolah derevev. Myshki nikogda ne sidyat bez dela: oni sobirayut urozhay na polyah, gotovyat zapasy orehov i yagod na zimu, chtoby potom nasladitsya neveroyatnymi dzhemami, pudingami i solenyami v priyatnoy kompanii vozle kamina. No u kazhdogo zhitelya Ezhevichnoy polyany vsegda naydyotsya vremya dlya veselya i razvlecheniy: bud eto den rozhdeniya ili pervyy den vesny.
Zabavnye i trogatelnye istorii o myshatah na Ezhevichnoy polyane vpervye byli opublikovany v 1980 godu. Avtor Dzhill Barklem dolgo izuchala prirodu i byt Anglii XIX veka, prezhde chem pristupit k napisaniyu knig.
"Priklyucheniya na Ezhevichnoy polyane" - eto sbornik, vklyuchayuschiy v sebya rasskazy "Vysokie holmy", "Deti Fialochki", "Taynaya lestnitsa" i "Morskaya istoriya".