Red House, Brown Mouse

by Jane Godwin (Author) Blanca Gómez (Illustrator)

Red House, Brown Mouse
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Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
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A bit Each Peach Pear Plum, a bit All the World, this acclaimed read-aloud celebrates colors, counting, and more. Deceptively simple yet packed with delights and now perfectly sized for babies and toddlers, it's an ideal baby shower or toddler birthday gift.

Red house, blue house, green house, tree house.

See the tiny mouse in her little brown house?

As an adventurous little mouse sets off into the world, she introduces new concepts to the very youngest. From colors and counting to animals and vehicles, this rhyming read-aloud gem is sure to enthrall babies and toddlers, who will delight in the search-and-find element on every spread--the intrepid mouse herself!

* "Wonderful...Delightful" --Kirkus (starred review)

* "Excellent...Perfectly aimed at the very youngest" --The Horn Book (starred review)

"Appealing...Calls for engagement on multiple levels" --Publishers Weekly

"Fun...offers multiple opportunities for reader interaction" --SLJ

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Kirkus

Starred Review
Preschoolers can follow a little brown mouse on its traveling adventures in this engaging color concept book. . . . Delightful and engaging.

Hornbook

Starred Review
Jaunty and interactive . . . A cheerful there-and-back-again adventure--that's also an excellent color-concept book--perfectly aimed at the very youngest. 

Publishers Weekly

The book calls for engagement on multiple levels: conveying basic concepts of color and counting ("Can you count the petals/ in the garden bed?), building language skills in the rhymes, and playing seek-and-find for the mouse on each spread. Even the travel patch-dotted endpapers spark activity. . . . Appealing [and] educational. 

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School Library Journal

Once the book has been read a few times and the mouse found, flip to the end pages for a new game. Match the patches on the endpapers with the related story images throughout the book. Verdict: A fun concept book for the very young with a seek-and-find element for slightly older, more savvy readers.

Copyright 2020 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission

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Jane Godwin
Jane Godwin is the highly acclaimed author of over 20 books for children. Her work is published internationally and she has received many commendations, including the Queensland Premier's Award (Children's Books), and shortlistings in the CBC Book of the Year Awards, the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Speech Pathology Awards, The Family Award for Children's Books, & the Australian Book Industry Awards. Jane spends as much time as she can working with young people in schools: running various literature & writing programs, making books & encouraging students in their own creative ventures.

Meg Rennieis a visual artist and illustrator from Melbourne, with a passion for characters and community. Meg's intricate mixed media collages have been published and exhibited across Melbourne, New York and the United Kingdom. She is the winner of the inaugural Little Hare Illustration Prize 2020.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780593112199
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Dial Books
Publication date
March 02, 2021
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV009020 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Colors
JUV009030 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Counting & Numbers
JUV002000 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | General
Library of Congress categories
Mice
Stories in rhyme
Colors
Color
Counting
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