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Mouse's First Fall
by
Lauren Thompson (Goodreads Author),
Buket Erdogan
One cool day Mouse and Minka venture out to play. From leaves of all colors red, yellow, orange, and brown to leaves of all shapes and sizes -- from pointy to round -- Mouse learns that fall is a season full of fun! And before the day is done he just might take the biggest "leap" of all. Hooray for fall!
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
October 1st 2006
by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
(first published September 5th 2006)
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Mouse’s First Fall is the seventh book in the series of Mouse’s First books by Lauren Thompson. Each book in the series uses a time of the year to teach key concepts to young children as Minke, Mouse’s older sister teaches her brother as they play.
Buket Erdogan’s colorful acrylic illustrations bring to life the wonderment Mouse feels at experiencing a windy day during fall. The different leaves are done in vibrant reds, oranges and yellows against a stark blue sky with lighter wisps of blue to s...more
Buket Erdogan’s colorful acrylic illustrations bring to life the wonderment Mouse feels at experiencing a windy day during fall. The different leaves are done in vibrant reds, oranges and yellows against a stark blue sky with lighter wisps of blue to s...more
Very cute! This will be a perfect toddler book whether I use it in Craft or at Pumpkin Palooza. I think an older audience would be all right with it if I choose to go with it.
10/5/10 & 10/7/10 This book went well, but not as well as I'd hoped. It tied in with teaching the song "Autumn Time," but I was still trying to figure out good ways to tell it. It didn't bomb, but I could have done better.
10/14/10 I think I did better with this, knowing what to expect. The Outreach toddler group liked i...more
10/5/10 & 10/7/10 This book went well, but not as well as I'd hoped. It tied in with teaching the song "Autumn Time," but I was still trying to figure out good ways to tell it. It didn't bomb, but I could have done better.
10/14/10 I think I did better with this, knowing what to expect. The Outreach toddler group liked i...more
This is a great book for toddlers! colorful, unique illustrations, simple but educating sentences and words, and, the best part, it teaches: unusual shapes (jagged, pointy, etc.), colors, some basic counting, and more. It's a heavy-duty board book that you can let them hold and play with a bit, if they want to look at it themselves. I think that my two and almost-two year old students will really enjoy, and it fits in very well with my monthly theme of fall.
What a great book that covers so much! Minka and Mouse discover so many awesome things on the first fall day: leaves of different colors,textures, and sizes! This is a great book for pre-k and kinder aged kids who are starting to learn about all these things. Also, there is an overuse of verbs in this story, so if you ever need a book that has a lot of those, this one would be great!
Mouse's First Fall is a great childrens book that describes some of the fun things about fall. Mouse likes to play in the leaves with his friend Minka. I could use this book during the season of fall. I could even have my students take a walk outside and gather different color leaves and we could do leaf rubbings on paper.
This is an engaging book that could be used to talk about the changes of the seasons, fall in particular. I would suggest using this book for kindergarten through second grade.
Friends Mouse and Minka go out to play on an fall day. They enjoy the falling leaves. They find the different shapes in the leaves, study the types of leaves and finally make a big pile and jump!
Simple storytime option for younger preschool/older toddlers. Mouse nad Minka play in the leaves. The children enjoy finding Minka when she hides.
Super cute illustrations but not much of a story.
Maybe an additional read as part of a fall (or mouse) "storytime" for PreK kiddos?
Maybe an additional read as part of a fall (or mouse) "storytime" for PreK kiddos?
Mouse and Minka learn about fall. It is an awesome book. Toddlers like it, but so do the threes and fours I work with.
I love this whole series of season books. They are simple enough to use with toddlers or Pre-K.
Feels less contrived than a lot of the Mouse's First... books. I like it quite a lot.
Emily likes the exclamations. I like the variety of concepts and vocabulary.
Love the beautiful deep colored illustrations, just so-so as a read aloud.
This is a cute book for Pre-K or Kindergarten classes discussing seasons!
My 3 year old love all these mouse board books by this author!
I read this to two year olds for storytimes on Fall.
Toddler
Grade: 1st
Weather patterns and seasons
Weather patterns and seasons
Maren really likes this one. Simple.
This book can be read during to practice predicting skills for language arts or it can be read to discuss characteristics of fall. I have used this book in a Pre-K classroom to also compare sizes of objects in the book to the size of mouse.
Recommended grade level: Pre-K to K.
Recommended grade level: Pre-K to K.
Apr 18, 2012
Helen Kumpel
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
science-seasons,
just-for-fun-k-2,
adjectives,
code-breaking,
colors,
meaning-making,
text-user
Who this book would be for: PreK-K
This book talks about Mouse's first Fall and jumping in and playing with his sister in the leaves. A cute book with simple words for beginner readers and bright colorful pictures for young readers to take a nice picture walk.
This book talks about Mouse's first Fall and jumping in and playing with his sister in the leaves. A cute book with simple words for beginner readers and bright colorful pictures for young readers to take a nice picture walk.
this series of Mouse books is a favorite of mine... i loved reading each at different times of the school year - the excitement at seeing a familiar character return was always fun to watch. all are quick reads, and great for practicing simple prediction skills.
Author: Lauren Thompson
Grade level: K-2
Content: Seasons, FALL
This a simple book for beginner readers. It talks about the season of fall. It describes the different shapes and colors all leaves have. Great introduction for fall season.
Grade level: K-2
Content: Seasons, FALL
This a simple book for beginner readers. It talks about the season of fall. It describes the different shapes and colors all leaves have. Great introduction for fall season.
Short, but cute and fun! Madelyn liked Mouse and Minka - could consider others in series.
Jul 19, 2010
pati
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
anthropomorphised-animals,
picture-books
I love all the Mouse books - Lauren Thompson and Buket Erdogan are a great author/illustrator team!
Love the vibrant illustrations in this book. Makes you want to go jump into a pile of leaves.
Oct 05, 2008
Kate Hastings
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
babies toddlers
Shelves:
fallstorytimes
Short story with lots of actions-- good for babytime (clipped) or toddlers.
A great book overviewing some of the joys of autumn for younger children.
Thompson delivers another great first for Mouse.
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