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danicamidlil's review against another edition
2.0
From the cover, I was expecting a [a:Jan Thomas|871172|Jan Thomas|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg] style of over-the-top silliness in this book. Instead, the colors are subdued and washed out just like the story.
The author starts to say something about the unique perspective of such a little mouse in such a big world but...doesn't. And then there's a sort of a weird follow the leader bit where we completely lose the up-close perspective of our main character and instead see the house just as humans normally would. Then all of a sudden, the cat is after him again? This story seems all jumbled up. I think it could have been much better with a stronger editor to sort out one of those storylines for this book.
The author starts to say something about the unique perspective of such a little mouse in such a big world but...doesn't. And then there's a sort of a weird follow the leader bit where we completely lose the up-close perspective of our main character and instead see the house just as humans normally would. Then all of a sudden, the cat is after him again? This story seems all jumbled up. I think it could have been much better with a stronger editor to sort out one of those storylines for this book.
mselizabeth87's review against another edition
4.0
Great fun for storytime. The rhythm and subject matter reminded me a lot of Llama Llama Red Pajama.
realpageturner's review against another edition
2.0
The general concept of the book is that Mouse gets lost and is trying to find his way home.
This story has some pros-
-There is rhyming and a lot of action words
- The text easily sets itself up for prompting questions to keep the kids engaged
- This story could be used for a number of different themes: animal, adventure, concepts, etc.
However there were some down sides too-
- I REALLY didn't like the illustrations. The colors were really faded and the pictures, therefore, are impossible to see at any distance. Making this not at all a good choice for a medium to large sized storytime group
- At times there were several sentences on each page. Making the book a bit too long for a toddler storytime.
- Lastly I just wasn't a huge fan of the flow of the story. There was a lot of dialogue from a number of characters so unless the reader is pretty good at different voices for different characters, listeners may get confused on who is saying what
This story has some pros-
-There is rhyming and a lot of action words
- The text easily sets itself up for prompting questions to keep the kids engaged
- This story could be used for a number of different themes: animal, adventure, concepts, etc.
However there were some down sides too-
- I REALLY didn't like the illustrations. The colors were really faded and the pictures, therefore, are impossible to see at any distance. Making this not at all a good choice for a medium to large sized storytime group
- At times there were several sentences on each page. Making the book a bit too long for a toddler storytime.
- Lastly I just wasn't a huge fan of the flow of the story. There was a lot of dialogue from a number of characters so unless the reader is pretty good at different voices for different characters, listeners may get confused on who is saying what
beecheralyson's review against another edition
4.0
fun story of a little mouse, especially liked the illustrations.
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