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A New House for Mouse
by
Petr Horáček
A hungry mouse is determined to find the perfect house for her oversize apple in this funny, vibrantly illustrated story with die-cut surprises.
One morning Mouse finds an enormous apple and decides that she really must take it inside. But her burrow is too small — so she sets out in search of a new, bigger house and an owner who's willing to share. Will she ever find a bur
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
April 3rd 2006
by Walker Books Ltd
(first published April 3rd 2004)
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This is a wonderful book with colourful pictures that compliment the story. The story is about a mouse that finds an oversize apple and desperatelty wanted to bring that apple into his house but the hole to his house in the ground was small for the apple to pass. So the mouse decides to go for a hunt for a bigger house and as he goes in search for a big hole he comes across different animals but none of them let him share their house with him. As he was searching for a bigger house the mouse sta...more
Mouse is happy in her little home until one day she finds a huge apple that will not fit into her home. So she decides to go on a hunt for a new house where she meets lots of different animals in their homes on the way. This book is a great book to read out loud to young children, as you can get them interact with you while reading the story to them. It has peep through holes where you can get the children to guess what type of animal lives in the hole. It can also be used to introduce animals,...more
Mar 03, 2011
Hafidha
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
caregivers of toddlers
Shelves:
childrens-books
Wonderful book. Love the cut outs from one page to another. The drawings are great, and my two year old loves when I do the voices of the animals (rabbit, mole, badger, bear, and the mouse). Very cute, just the right length for a toddler who wants to hear the story again and again. I borrowed this from the library, but will likely buy a copy for our own collection.
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Horacek's illustrations are wonderful as always! This is a cute and simple story about a mouse looking for a house that can fit him and his apple, and the animals he runs into along the way. Could as the kids, "Do you think he found a new house?" and "What animals did he find?" to make it interactive.
Don't know why....but this book is storytime gold. Works every time. A mouse finds an apple, he can't fit it into his house. He goes out searching for a new home....they are all occupied by other critters. He eats off his apple along the way. Eventually he 'finds' his own home.
This out-of-print story works perfectly in a story-time setting for pre-schoolers.
Embellish the story with actions such as hand-over-hand pulling a rope (page 3)and slapping knees making a running sound (p.19).
Encourage children to guess what might be hiding in the next "hole". Will it be scary? Will it be nice? Will it be silly?
This is call "dialogic reading" (having a dialogue between the reader and the listener).
"Dialogic reading works. Children who have been read to dialogically are subst...more
Embellish the story with actions such as hand-over-hand pulling a rope (page 3)and slapping knees making a running sound (p.19).
Encourage children to guess what might be hiding in the next "hole". Will it be scary? Will it be nice? Will it be silly?
This is call "dialogic reading" (having a dialogue between the reader and the listener).
"Dialogic reading works. Children who have been read to dialogically are subst...more
A nicely illustrated book with cut outs between pages that allow you to see some anthropomorphic animal homes inside and out as mouse travels around looking for a house where he and his apple can live.
really engaging both in story, concept, illustrations, idea of sizes, getting preschoolers to follow a story from beginning to end and analyze/remember/connect the dots.
Nice illustrations complement this book about a little mouse who finds an apple and thinks she needs a new house in order to fit her new apple. So the journey begins...
It's rough business when your apple won't fit in your house. I love his books - they are so encouraging in so many ways!
Good! A nice concept book, too. I'd buy it if my 2 y.o. daughter had asked for me to read it more often, but she didn't.
Clever cut-out picture book starring Little Mouse who needs find a new house that fits a new found big red apple.
Illustrations are too cute for words...and the story is so engaging.
Mar 30, 2012
Danica Midlil
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
animals,
cozy,
food,
picture-books,
preschoolers,
print-motivation,
size,
toddlers,
vocabulary
Great peephole construction! Perfect for the story.
Sep 29, 2007
Kate Hastings
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
PreK -1st grade, storytime
Shelves:
picturebooks
Very cute story, perfect for a cut-and-tell. Mouse can't fit his apple in his hole, so he goes looking for a new place, nibbling a bit of his apple along the way... until she ends up back at home and the apple fits!
Cute story. Little ones will love making predictions about what creature lives in the next hole found by mouse.
I <3 Petr Horacek.
Very unique.
Very unique.
sharing, mice
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Petr Horáček is the author-illustrator of LOOK OUT, SUZY GOOSE and SILLY SUZY GOOSE, as well as RUN, MOUSE, RUN!; BIRD, FLY HIGH; A NEW HOUSE FOR MOUSE; and STRAWBERRIES ARE RED. He lives in England.
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