Mouse Count

I gave this book four stars because it is a easy read for beginning readers. This book teaches children how not to be greedy and how nothing good comes from this. It also introduces number words to the children from 1-10. The pictures are fun and colorful. This book can be used in the classroom to accompany activities that include number counting backwards and forwards. ( )

(easy) Snake is very hungry and sees a large group of sleepy, warm, little, tasty mice. He takes three at first, then four more, then the last three and places them in a big jar. Snake is so greedy that when the first little mouse to be eaten suggests there is an even bigger mouse that Snake left behind, he drops little mouse back into the jar and slithers away. While the snake is gone, the mice escape the jar. Snake discovers that the bigger mouse is just a cold rock. When he returns, all the mice are gone. This book is good for counting exersize and you can invite the children to count the mice with you as they are being put in the jar. Towards the end of the story, there is an opportunity for the children to count backwards from ten. Perhaps a fun exersize would be to play a counting or grouping game with little rubber mice or with the tiny color coded bears that one can find in a toddler section in counting games. ( )

Summary: The mice are escaping from the hungry snake. Response: I love the torn paper illustrations look. I also like that this book counts to 10 and then back again. Theme/Connection: Numbers & Counting; Great toddler read aloud; could be used working on making torn paper art in class ( )

Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh is a cute picture book that introduces number words to the reader. A snake hunts mice for dinner and places ten of them in a jar. As he captures the mice he counts them one-by-one. The mice trick the snake and by the end of the story they tip the jar over, un-count themselves, and escape being eaten. This story is great for predictions and to encourage students to recognize and read number sight words.

This is an easy book about a snake that counts his supper, mice. He counts them up all the way to ten but out of greed decides he needs one more. While looking all of the mice escape out of the jar.
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-9780152002237-0 This is the publisher website. It is not very helpful or interesting. The main information shared is the details of the book. ( )