Slide the lid open and there it is: a mouse asleep in its own bed, blanket pulled up. This is the toy a child carries everywhere and keeps for twenty years. Start with one mouse. The family, the beds, and the rooms are all here.
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Little Sister sleeps in a Mouse Race matchbox on a sage green knitted blanket. Mum and Dad share a cigar box, eye masks on, his pushed up on his forehead. Granddad has a stitched mustache, a tartan bow tie, and gray rubber boots with yellow toes. Each one arrives already in bed, and the box closes and goes in a pocket. Pick the first mouse today. The rest of the family is here when the story needs them.
Every mouse in this family, from the babies to Granddad, fits Mouse size furniture. Clothes swap only within a size, so check the size guide below before you buy a second outfit.
Maileg sizes its mice by family role, and every outfit and piece of furniture is made for a size. Match the size and everything fits. Here are the four sizes, standing in a row at their real proportions.
One rule covers most of it: every mouse in the family, from the babies to Granddad, uses Mouse size furniture. Clothes only swap between mice of the same size.
Open the castle box and the princess is asleep on a stack of seven mattresses, each cut from a different print, with the pea hidden underneath. The Royal Twins share one matchbox with their own portrait on the lid. The pumpkin carriage rides on four spoked wheels that turn, with a cord so a mouse can pull it across the floor. This is the set a child acts out at bedtime for years. Take the princess home tonight.
Big Sister hikes in a denim pinafore with a pink bedroll strapped to her back. Her brothers wear striped tees and checked caps. The rust orange tent goes up in one motion on two wooden sticks, with a striped floor sewn in and a little window in the back wall for the stars. The bonfire set has three fabric logs, two roasting sticks, sausages, and marshmallows. Each stick has a metal band near the handle, so a mouse grips it with the magnets in her paws and holds it all evening. Start with one hiker and the tent.
The bunk bed arrives with a mattress, a pillow, and a cover on each level, so two mice have a sleepover the minute it is out of the box. The floor lamp switches on and lights the corner of the room after dark. The stroller has four rolling wheels, a bar with three wooden beads to spin, and a seat that turns to face Mum or face the road. The bouncer chair holds a baby mouse in place with a woven strap. A bedroom is where a collection starts. Start it with the bunk bed.
The rose pink tub stands on four clawfeet, white inside, long enough for a mouse to sit down and be scrubbed. The toilet's seat and lid lift on a hinge, and the handle on the tank has a real pull. The sink dresser has two gold taps, a mirror, and a cabinet door that opens. The toothbrush bag holds a toothbrush, toothpaste, a cup, a hairbrush, and a bottle of shampoo, each its own little piece. Bath night is the scene every child plays first. Put the tub in the cart, then add the toilet.
The garden set is a slatted wooden table that folds on a crossed frame, a two-seat bench with a back, and a chair, all on khaki metal legs. It moves the play out of the house: a tea party on the windowsill, lunch on the edge of a bookshelf. The kitchen counter has a pressed metal sink set into the top and seven loose pieces: two cups, two saucers, a pot, a pitcher, and a printed can of tomatoes. Two sets, and the mice have somewhere to cook and somewhere to eat. Add both.
Closed, the SuitCasa is a paper suitcase with a metal handle, painted shutters, and an orange tree by the front door. Open it and there are four papered rooms on two floors with two beds already made. The ballet studio folds one way into a bedroom with a bunk bed and a working drawer, and the other way into a rehearsal room with a mirrored wall and a barre the two mice hold. A house is the gift that gets played with on the floor for an hour before dinner. Give the house.
This is a room, not a mouse house. It adds a proper bathroom to Maileg's House of Miniature, with a lattice tile floor and a small lace curtain at the window. Maileg's teddies and bunnies sit in the tub in a shower cap. If your child already has the House of Miniature, this is the room it is missing.
This room is Miniature size, built for the House of Miniature and its bunnies, rabbits, and Teddy family. Mouse furniture belongs in the mouse rooms above.
Every mouse here arrives in bed. Little Sister in a printed matchbox. Mum and Dad in a cigar box. The princess in her castle. The Baby Mouse in Gown in a flowered box with a window in the front. Hand it over as it comes. The lid slides open, the mouse is asleep inside, and that first look is the whole present.
A world in which matchboxes can be beds for mice, princesses make perfect teatime companions, and cats and mice turn out to be the best of friends.
Maileg is Danish. Say it My-lye. The mouse asleep in a matchbox is the piece the brand is known for, and it is still the heart of everything they make. Each one is handmade in linen and cotton, down to the stitches on its toes, with a knitted blanket and a printed lid, so no two are exactly the same.
A child opens the box on a birthday morning. The mouse goes to school in a pocket, to Grandma's in a bag, and to bed on the pillow. Years later it sits on a shelf with the whole family around it, and the lid still slides open. Maileg makes these to be handed on to the next child in the family.
A child is only small enough for this for a few years. Buy the first mouse now, and every birthday after it has an easy answer.
See every toy in the shopThe smallest mouse Maileg makes, small enough to ride in a coat pocket.
Rides in the stroller and the bouncer chair, and sleeps in Mouse size beds too.
The matchbox mice: the ballet dancers, the Royal Twins, and the pair the SuitCasa is built for.
Fits Little size clothes, the SuitCasa, the ballet studio, and all Mouse size furniture.
The hikers, and the princess asleep on her seven mattresses.
Fits Big size clothes, the Happy Camper tent, and all Mouse size furniture.
The grown-ups. Parents and grandparents share one size.
Fits grown-up clothes and beds, and all Mouse size furniture.
One exception: the House of Miniature bathroom is Miniature size, made for Maileg's bunnies, rabbits, and teddies, not for the mouse furniture on this page.
The Royal Twins are Little size. The princess is Big Sister size. The pumpkin carriage seats any mouse in the family; Maileg shows a Big Brother riding in the doorway.
The hikers are Big Brother and Big Sister size, and Maileg built the tent for them. The bonfire and fishing sets work with any mouse that has magnets in its paws.
The bunk bed and the lamp are Mouse size, so any mouse in the family sleeps here. The stroller and the bouncer chair are made for Baby mice.
The tub, the toilet, the sink dresser, and the toothbrush bag are Mouse size, for every mouse from the babies to Granddad. The small pedestal sink is made for Little Brother and Little Sister and fits the SuitCasa bathroom.
The garden set is Mouse size, so the whole family sits down. The kitchen counter is scaled for the SuitCasa, where the Little Brother and Little Sister mice live.
Both are built for Little Brother and Little Sister size. The ballet studio comes with its two mice. The SuitCasa is waiting for yours.
