MOUSE COUNT
Author/ Illustrator:
Ellen Stoll Walsh
Publisher:
Scholastic Inc.
Year of Publication:
1991
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating:
Horn Book: 2 &
Kirkus Starred Review
Summary:
This book is all about a snake who finds sleeping mice and counts them while he places them in a jar to eat them for dinner. One mouse wakes up and tells the snake to go get the big mouse that away from the jar so that the mice can rock the jar over and un-count themselves out of the jar so they do not get eaten.
Summary of Professional Reviews:
As said by Kirkus Reviews this book has a clean illustrative style as a counting book. The author includes some humor with nice pages that will help children rehearse their numbers from one to ten and then back again from ten to one. Mouse Count also received a Starred Review from the Kirkus Reviews.
Review by Ashley:
In this delightful book of ten sleeping mice who get picked up by a hungry snake and placed in a jar so that he can eat them try to trick the snake. One sneaky mouse tells the snake that their is a bigger "mouse" over beyond a bush that turns out to be a simple rock. While the snake is being tricked, the mice in the jar rocked it over and can escape. The suspense of not knowing if the snake with actually eat the mice can keep the children reading. The book is very well illustrated and some slight humor with the mice is a nice way to allow children to help count while reading.
This book would be useful when teaching...
Mouse Count would be an exceptional book for children to practice their counting from one to ten and then backwards from ten to one. Teachers can also use this book to introduce the topic of counting forwards and backwards because of how the snake puts 10 mice in a jar and then they uncount themselves from the jar.