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Title: If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0-06-028328-9 Publisher: Laura Geringer Pub. Date: 16 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: That demanding mouse is back for another adventure!
Comment: I bought this for my soon to be three year old daughter because she loves the other books in this series so much (if you give a mouse a cookie, a pig a pancake, etc.). I was glad to see mouse going to school. I am currently trying to warm my daughter up to the idea of attending a preschool. Thanks to mouse and his human boy friend school looks like a fun place to be. The boy in this story reminds me somewhat of myself. Always trying to satisfy the insatiable demands of a mouse or in my case the demands of a preschooler. Parents and kids will enjoy reading this book together. A great addition to the series.
Rating: 4
Summary: Mouse is Back.....
Comment: "If you take a mouse to school he'll ask you for your lunchbox..." So begins Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond's latest manic chain of events adventure, and little ones, familiar with this marvelous series, will know just what kind of trouble is coming next. Mouse is never quite satisfied. Once he's got your lunchbox, he'll want a sandwich, and a snack for later, a notebook and pencils, and he'll want to share your backpack. Once you get to school, he'll do a little math, some spelling, and a rather messy science experiment, that sends him to the bathroom in need of washing up. Then he notices the building blocks, and so on, and so forth, through the end of the school day and after, until the story comes full circle, and his boy companion ends up taking him back to school..... Ms Numeroff's lively text is entertaining and engaging, but it's Ms Bond's busy, bright and exuberant illustrations that make this picture book sparkle. Each colorful, action packed page is filled with special, humorous details, and youngsters will revel in all the fun as they watch this endearing little rodent wreak havoc and create chaos in the classroom. Though the story doesn't flow as smoothly as in the previous books of this series (If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, If You Give A Moose A Muffin, If You Take A Mouse To The Movies), and isn't quite as intricate or clever, If You Take A Mouse To School is still a comical, silly romp kids 3-7 will want to read again and again.
Rating: 4
Summary: Ok, but then what?
Comment: OK, bottom line, my daughter loves this book. Loves the story and loves the pictures. So I have to give it an overall positive review because the primary purpose of a kid's book is to entertain the kids.
But I do have a little complaint, and I know how silly it will sound. This book is a follow-up to "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie" and others in the series, such as another of my daughter's favorites, "If you Give A Moose A Muffin." What is clever about these stories is that they develop a circular sequence of events that ultimately lead back to the beginning for what could be another in an infinite series of rotations through the steps. This book does not end so neatly. The mouse must return to the school to retrieve his lunchbox, hence you are taking a mouse to school again, but it is at the end of the school day, not the beginning. If there were one more page it would say, "Umm, then you'd go home."
I know, again I'm being too knit-picky for a kid's book. But parents will feel more enthusiastic to read a kids book where the gimmick is successfully carried out, not one that seems forced, as if the writer had a deadline. Or a nap to take.
Still, thumbs and tails up. I gave it four stars figuring I'd give five to Felicia Bond, the illustrator, and three to the author, Laura Numeroff.
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Title: If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0060278676 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0060244054 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0060266864 Publisher: Laura Geringer Pub. Date: 31 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0060245867 Publisher: Laura Geringer Pub. Date: 30 June, 1985 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Betsy Lewin, Doreen Cronin ISBN: 0689845065 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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