The Storm (Lighthouse Family series)
by Cynthia Rylant
illustrated by Preston McDaniels
Age: 4+ (read to); 6+ (independent reading)
Interests: animals, cats, dogs, mice, ocean, boats, weather More
The Storm (Lighthouse Family series)
29 Jan 2014 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+, books 6+ Tags: animals, boats, cats, dogs, family, independence, mice, ocean, orphans, storms, weather
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
15 Jan 2014 Leave a comment
in Movies, movies 6+ Tags: adventure, castle, cooking, fairy tale updated, knights, mice, Princess, rats
The Tale of Despereaux
released: 2008
rated: G
length: 93 min.
age: 6+
interests: mice, rats, castles, princesses, cooking, updated fairy tales, adventure
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The Tale of Despereaux
20 Nov 2013 3 Comments
in Books, books 7+ Tags: castle, cooking, fairy tale updated, mice, Princess, rats
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
by Kate diCamillo
Age: 7+
Interests: mice, castles, princesses, rats, soup, cooking
Chester
26 Sep 2013 2 Comments
in Books, books 5+, Canadian books Tags: artists, bad behavior, cats, comedy, mice, storytelling, writers
Chester
text and illustrations by Mélanie Watt
Age: 5+ (but older kids will find it funny too – 7,8)
Interests: cats, mice, artists, telling stories, bad behaviour, humour
Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears
18 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: fear, maps, mice
The Lion and the Mouse
18 Feb 2012 1 Comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: Africa, animals, fables, lion, mice, wordless books
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2010
by Jerry Pinkney
Little, Brown and Company, 2009
34 pp.
Age: 2+
Interests: mice, lions, animals, Africa, fables, wordless books
Also by this author: Little Red Hen, John Henry, Aesop’s Fables, Noah’s Ark
Next: a full collection of Aesop’s Fables
Once a Mouse…
26 Dec 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: animals, art, folktales, India, jungle, mice, philosophy
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1962
subtitle: A Fable Cut in Wood
by Marcia Brown
Simon & Schuster, 1961
30 pp.
Age: 4 +
Interests: mice, animals, folktales, India, magic, art, philosophy
Also by this author: Stone Soup, Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper
Frederick
19 Aug 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: artists, mice, poetry
by Leo Lionni
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967
28 pp.
Age: 3+
Interests: mice, poetry, the artist’s life
Also by this author: Swimmy, Inch by Inch, Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse
Top 10: Eeek! A Mouse!
17 Aug 2011 2 Comments
in Books, Quick Lists Tags: mice
Is there any storybook creature who can win our sympathy quicker than the humble mouse? This wee beastie, less objectionable than a rat and more cuddly than an insect, appears in countless stories as a stand-in for the weak and powerless. When a little mouse triumphs over overwhelming adversity, we all cheer.
And yet… the sympathy does not extend to real life, does it? I remember a time many years ago when my days were occupied with writing charming adventures for adorable mice, and my nights were dedicated to exterminating the rather less adorable mice that were running amok in my apartment.
Ah well… let’s just focus on those more charming, storybook rodents for the moment, shall we?
Here are 10 books featuring mice…
PICTURE BOOKS
1. Frederick, by Leo Lionni
An artist mouse brings sunshine to his brethren during the long, cold winter.
2. The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson
Wee mousie outwits many predators, including a ferocious Gruffalo.
3. Amos & Boris, by William Steig
The story of an unusual friendship between a whale and a mouse.
4. Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears, by Emily Gravett
Little Mouse is afraid of everything. A child’s primer on phobias.
5. The Church Mouse, by Graham Oakley
A church mouse is friends with a peaceable cat; together they foil a thief. First book in the very popular Church Mice series.
CHAPTER BOOKS
1. The Mouse and the Motorcycle, by Beverly Cleary
A mouse befriends a boy and rides about on a toy motorcycle.
2. The School Mouse, by Dick King-Smith
A mouse living in a school decides she’d like to learn how to read too.
3. Stuart Little, by E.B. White
Stuart’s adventures and mishaps in New York City.
4. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo
The story of a mouse’s quest to rescue a human princess.
A vast witch conspiracy is undone by a very determined little mouse.
Stuart Little (1999)
31 Jul 2011 Leave a comment
in Movies, movies 5+ Tags: adoption, boats, cats, family, mice, New York
Rated: Rated PG for brief language
Length: 84 min.
Age: 5 and up. Commonsense Media sez: 6 +
Scary Factor: Stuart in the washing machine as water is filling up; chased by cat several times; two major chases from alley cats in park
Intense: concept of getting mafia-like cats to rub him out (“scratch him out”); police station conversation about killing sprees and grisly crime photos; alley cats menace a lot but don’t get very close; alley cats dispatched in end by dumping them in pond (aren’t hurt, are seen climbing out and running off)
Bad Behaviour: George pushes another boy down, fists flying, etc. and doesn’t get in any trouble for it (the impression we’re left with is that it’s all right because the other boy was so unpleasant)
Language: swearing! “damn”s, “hell”; presumably included for sole purpose of winning a PG rating; also rude language, “shut up”, “moron”, “loser”, “speak to the butt”
Interests: mice, cats, New York, adoption, family
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