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Mouse Mess
Internationally acclaimed cut-paper artist Linnea Riley presents the delicious tale of a mouse in search of a snack who create chaos in the kitchen. Young readers will relish the midnight snacks and marvel at the antics of a mouse who loves crumbly cookies and crunchy cornflakes! Full color.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
October 1st 1997
by Blue Sky Press
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Mouse Mess by Linnea Asplind Riley is a tasty tale of a mouse who creates kitchen chaos in creating a 'snack.' The mouse adds insult to injury when he says "These people need to clean their house!" Then he cleans himself up and goes to sleep.
The text has rhythm and rhyme to entertain listeners and readers alike.
Mouse crunches, munches, sniffs, splashes, trips and slips his way around the kitchen. A large font makes this a beginning reader choice.
The cut paper illustrations really carry this stor...more
The text has rhythm and rhyme to entertain listeners and readers alike.
Mouse crunches, munches, sniffs, splashes, trips and slips his way around the kitchen. A large font makes this a beginning reader choice.
The cut paper illustrations really carry this stor...more
CLASS:
Toddler Storybook Art Class
BOOK(s):
Mouse Mess & Lunch!
LINKS:
Mouse template can be found here, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...)
BOOK SHARING:
I first read Mouse Mess by Riley then Lunch! by Fleming (you could do only one book if you had less time) during our class and included ASL signs that were food and mess related (I did mouse and a few foods signs and dirty and clean) I also used felt story pieces that I had made based on the book. I put a large felt mouse on the felt boar...more
Toddler Storybook Art Class
BOOK(s):
Mouse Mess & Lunch!
LINKS:
Mouse template can be found here, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...)
BOOK SHARING:
I first read Mouse Mess by Riley then Lunch! by Fleming (you could do only one book if you had less time) during our class and included ASL signs that were food and mess related (I did mouse and a few foods signs and dirty and clean) I also used felt story pieces that I had made based on the book. I put a large felt mouse on the felt boar...more
My nephew really enjoyed Mouse Mess! He laughed at the little mouse's antics, and he said, "Amy, this is my favorite book! I want to bring it home and read it in my room!" He sat his little stuffed mouse down beside him because he thought Mousie would also enjoy this story. I think Mousie did like it quite a lot. :-)
Although this story is well below my niece's reading level, she also enjoyed the story. She especially liked the pictures, which are bright, fun, works of art, really. She enjoyed ho...more
Although this story is well below my niece's reading level, she also enjoyed the story. She especially liked the pictures, which are bright, fun, works of art, really. She enjoyed ho...more
•Brief summary
Mouse gets up for a snack but makes a horrible mess. He has to work very hard to clean it up.
•Audience
I would use this book in preschool, kindergarten or first grade.
•Appeal
This book has very big bold pictures. This book has lots of fun rhymes.
•Implementation
I would use this book in two different ways. I would use it at the beginning of the year to talk about always picking up after our selves. We pick up after our selfs because it would not be very nice to make someone else do...more
Mouse gets up for a snack but makes a horrible mess. He has to work very hard to clean it up.
•Audience
I would use this book in preschool, kindergarten or first grade.
•Appeal
This book has very big bold pictures. This book has lots of fun rhymes.
•Implementation
I would use this book in two different ways. I would use it at the beginning of the year to talk about always picking up after our selves. We pick up after our selfs because it would not be very nice to make someone else do...more
This little book has been labeled a favorite by both my boys a decade a part. The illustrations are delightful. They are filled with vibrant eye catching color. Told from a "mouse eye" view of the counter top this little mouse proceeds to wreck this house.
He makes piles of cornflakes to dive in, and munches on cookies and cheese. He bounces from food to food spilling, diving and nibbling. My son enjoys calling out , "There is the cookie, There is that mouse " page to page. After the mouse dest...more
He makes piles of cornflakes to dive in, and munches on cookies and cheese. He bounces from food to food spilling, diving and nibbling. My son enjoys calling out , "There is the cookie, There is that mouse " page to page. After the mouse dest...more
This book is about a little mouse who wates for the people to go to bed and then ventures out to eat. He goes through everything in the cabinets and the fridge finding things to eat. He makes a horrible mess of things. When he's done eating he looks around and says "who made this awful mess?" He runs some hot water in a coffee cup and takes a bath then he goes to bed leaving his mess behind.
This book is cute and easy to read to children. It has many bright and colorful pictures and the pictures...more
This book is cute and easy to read to children. It has many bright and colorful pictures and the pictures...more
Yes, the mouse does behave poorly. But it's a mouse! He's not even being anthropomorphized. Plus, he's terrorizing a human's kitchen, not his own family. If it was a child that made this mess, I wouldn't let this book come home with me. But just to be safe, I'm only going to read it to other people's children.
The raking cornflakes scene is making me throw this in with my other late Autumn stories.
The raking cornflakes scene is making me throw this in with my other late Autumn stories.
While, I did not think this book was very interesting, I did think it had excellent rhyming words. Most of the entire book rhymed and this would be a great book to use in an introduction to rhyming words. I believe the children would also love the pictures.
Cute, fun picture book in which a mouse raids the kitchen after the humans have gone to bed. The mouse makes an awfully big mess as he enjoys his feast. When he's full, he takes a step back, surveys the mess and proclaims, "These people need to clean their house!" The mouse goes to bed without cleaning up his mess -- the way a real mouse would!
But cleaning up your own messes isn't the message here. In fact, this isn't a book with a message any heavier than "food can be fun!" Simple, lively rhymi...more
But cleaning up your own messes isn't the message here. In fact, this isn't a book with a message any heavier than "food can be fun!" Simple, lively rhymi...more
The art is interesting. First time I've heard of this "critically acclaimed" cut-paper artist. Done in rhyme, the story was a fun. A family leaves their kitchen clean. A mouse raids the cupboards, leaving a huge mess
Once there lived a quiet mouse (hold up index finger)
In a quiet little house (close other fist over index finger)
When all was quiet as can be (put finger to lips)
OUT POPPED He! (Pull finger out of fist)
In a quiet little house (close other fist over index finger)
When all was quiet as can be (put finger to lips)
OUT POPPED He! (Pull finger out of fist)
This book has great, wonderful pictures and a cute story about a mouse that gets up at night to eat a snack. There is rhyming text that adds interest.
For some inexplicable reason, this is one of my son's all-time favourite books. We don't own it, but it is frequently requested from the library.
This book is a story about a very messy mouse that needs to learn to clean up after himself. I would use this in a lesson to teach sequencing.
This is one of my most favorite books to read to my kids. The pictures are great and the rhyming text is simple and fun.
Okay, this was just fun, fun, fun. Great pictures, bold colors, cute conclusion. Great for a "food" or "messy" storytime theme.
Read at Preschool Story Time on 9/26/11: http://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/...
Cute little read aloud book for children of all ages. This book is about a little mouse who makes a big mess.
A very adorable book, great for a bed time story! Illustrations are eye catching, and the story is rhythmic.
The adorable and vibrant illustrations and fun to say text makes this a pick for storytime.
A little mouse on its way to be fed makes a great mess although he does not blame himself.
Style of illustrations was fun but not used to full potential.
Best for 0-5 years old, vocabulary and phonological awareness.
A hungry mouse leaves a huge mess when it goes in search of a snack.
This book most definitely has a "how not to behave" moral!
Asher's favorite book xD
It's about a hungry mouse leaves a huge mess when it goes in search of a snack.
This is a great story to read to students in a classroom and use a prop for the mouse. Allow one of the children who has the most behavior problems to come up and hold the mouse prop. It will greatly engage the child and provide him or her with responsibility.
This was a play group story time book. The leader didn't read most of the actual text because it was a bit long for her audience, but she read segments and talked through the pictures. In general, it was fun watching the mouse making a mess with the food. For young readers, it could be a great book to read to identify food items and just talk about food.
Linnea Riley's illustrations are bold and awesome, but the grown-up in me kept cringing at the terrible mess the mouse makes. I mean, sure it'd be fun to stomp on corn flakes and make brown sugar castles--but the mess! The mess!
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