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Title: Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh ISBN: 0-15-200265-0 Publisher: Red Wagon Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 1995 Format: Board book Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.94 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Many facets of value
Comment: This book is a must have for anyone associated with a preschool child! By means of a clever tale - charming on its own - this book explores primary colors, color mixtures, and contrast. It became one of my child's favorites as a toddler and remains a favorite at age four. Longevity isn't the only milage we've gotten out of this book, either. It has also spawned many spontaineous, artistic experiments with color (mixing paint or playdough, etc.). For broad, lasting appeal and educational merit, this book is a great (bargain!) investment.
Rating: 5
Summary: An entertaining look at the art and science of color.
Comment: As an art teacher, I enjoyed the way in which this book presents the concept of primary colors, secondary colors and color mixing. It is easy to read, easy to understand and entertaining for young children who are experiencing the "science" of color for perhaps the first time, and for those who are re-experiencing it, it makes it fun and entertaining all over again.
Rating: 5
Summary: Love to paint them mousies, mousies what I love to paint
Comment: I'm curious. Why do the best picture books explaining color involve solely, and with few exceptions, mice? I mean, just consider Denise Fleming's fantastic "Lunch" or Ed Young's stunning, "Seven Blind Mice". For some reason, mice are just prone to well written color-infused storylines. "Mouse Paint" is no different.
Three adorable albino mice (able to hide from clever cats by standing on white pieces of paper) come across three jars of pain. On is red, one is yellow, and one is blue. Thinking, in a typical mousy fashion, that the jars of paint are Mouse Paint, the three climb in. Next, they set about dipping their toes in other colors, creating whole new combinations. Thus, kids learn that when a red mouse does a jig in a puddle of yellow paint, his feet will eventually turn a bright cheery orange. By the end of the tale, the mice are painting all sorts of colors hither and yon, mixing and matching shades in all sorts of new and exciting ways.
The book is made from a series of cut-paper collages. You wouldn't necessarily know this when looking at it, however. These mice have verve and pep. Their puddle dances are lively and entertaining. There are subtle in-jokes, such as the mice washing themselves clean in a large bowl that reads, "CAT". And to top it all off, they're pretty darn cute to boot. Though I've seen good books explaining colors to kids, this is the best I've seen that explains how to create a new color out of the combination of two others. All in all, it's a good read and an entertaining one as well.
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Title: Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh ISBN: 0152002669 Publisher: Red Wagon Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni ISBN: 0688132855 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 24 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni ISBN: 0375810919 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle ISBN: 0805047905 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault, Bill Jr Martin, Lois Ehlert ISBN: 068983568X Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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