Mouse Count

by Ellen Stoll Walsh

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In this charming companion to Mouse Paint, Ellen Stoll Walsh introduces the concept of counting forward and backward in a suspenseful story that will keep young readers guessing. “The rhythm follows the illustrations in a glissando; one can almost hear the background music.”--The Horn Book

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Average Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

mouse count, 2008-08-16
Another of my favorites. This story has adorable illustrations and simple text for the preschooler/kindergarten child. Introduces simple math for nos. 1-10.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Perfect read-aloud, 2006-10-30
This was a favorite book when I taught preschool and today with my children. The dialogue is great for using fun voices for the snake and the mice and the repetition invites the children to read along.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Mouse Count - Love this Book!, 2005-08-19
This book is a really fun one to read aloud to my kindergarten class. It is not scary! They love it! And the fact that snakes eat mice is a basic fact that they understand. I especially like the moral of this story: Don't be greedy! When I read it, I always hear "Read it again, please". To make it even more fun, we get a plastic jar, a toy snake, a rock, and little toy mice to dramatize the story. They love to make the jar rock back and forth until the mice spill out and run away. This is a favorite centertime activity that the kids choose over and over again. It's a great prediction book with basic counting forward and backward concepts imbedded in it. You can't go wrong with this book for the PreK/K range.

3 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2 out of 5 stars

Serial killers give this to their kids, 2005-06-07
My own fault I guess. I should have read the reviews for this book before purchasing it. I just assumed that the wonderful author of Mouse Paint would have a similar charm for this book.

I'm sure you read the gist in other reviews. The snake is collecting each "tasty" mouse to be eaten later.

This is reminiscent of the old fables where bad things happen to the characters. The mice do make their escape.

This book got two stars because the bloodbath didn't occur and the mice are indeed cute.

Now I have to decide if it's worth returning or if I should give it away and traumatize someone else's children.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

very good; but "Mouse Paint" still beats this, 2003-03-17
As a preschool teacher I like this book.
Far from the snake's description of the imprisioned mice making it inappropariate for children: it is a good moral lesson! Don't be greedy! It is also not a problem because mice are on earth to be food for the snakes and the preditors are not "bad" animals; there are just fulfilling their role in the ecology.
I don't like it as much as "Mouse Paint" but it is a fine counting book.

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