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Just a Mess (Little Critter)
by
Mercer Mayer
A boy cleans up his messy room to try to find his baseball mitt.
Paperback, 24 pages
Published
May 1st 2000
by Random House Books for Young Readers
(first published December 12th 1987)
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Jul 19, 2009
Slayermel
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This book always makes me laugh. I have read it with the children in my classroom several times, especially when clean up is becoming an issue. The children think it's quite funny and always have comments on little critters cleaning technique. :0)
Little critter has lost his baseball mitt and his mother suggests he clean his room to find it.
Little critter starts to clean his room by throwing things in the closet and shoving things under the bed. He ultimately finds his mitt in the process losing...more
Little critter has lost his baseball mitt and his mother suggests he clean his room to find it.
Little critter starts to clean his room by throwing things in the closet and shoving things under the bed. He ultimately finds his mitt in the process losing...more
This is a fun book about a "little critter" who has to clean his very messy room, but does not do it in a way that any mother would accept. He shoves things in his closet and under his bed.
I used this book to prompt a math lesson in which the students had to clean up their unifix cubes, but they had to do it the right way, not at all like the "little critter". The "right way" to clean up the unifix cubes in this lesson was to make tens. The students worked as partners to make tens with the unifi...more
I used this book to prompt a math lesson in which the students had to clean up their unifix cubes, but they had to do it the right way, not at all like the "little critter". The "right way" to clean up the unifix cubes in this lesson was to make tens. The students worked as partners to make tens with the unifi...more
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Little Critter is big here. We pick them up cheap (well, cheaper than they already are) at the local used book store.
This book follows just the plot you'd expect - Little Critter loses his baseball glove and is told by his mother to clean his room. He does a dubious job at that and finally, just when he's almost forgotten why he started, he finds his glove!
Here's the thing. You can buy these books for $4 anywhere (or, if you get them used, probably under a buck). You could stock your child's lib...more
This book follows just the plot you'd expect - Little Critter loses his baseball glove and is told by his mother to clean his room. He does a dubious job at that and finally, just when he's almost forgotten why he started, he finds his glove!
Here's the thing. You can buy these books for $4 anywhere (or, if you get them used, probably under a buck). You could stock your child's lib...more
I like this book for many reasons. One, it has a funny, real life story. Second, it uses very simple words for my early readers. Third, it has real-life lessons in it: cleaning your room, finding your toys, being responsible for your own belongings and mess, and one should never 'wash' the bedroom floor with a hose :)
Every child has to learn to clean his or her room. If they do not learn this life skill they will not be able to find any thing and grow up to be unorganized.This little critter decided to clean his room so that he could find his baseball mitt.Children can comprehend what happens first to last in this story.
I like Mercer Mayer books because they deal with real situations that kids (and adults)face. I love the illustrations and especially Little Critter's friends that help him out - the mouse, frog, spider or grasshopper -that are on the page somewhere if you look (sometimes only one friend but usually two). I read the stories to my children and then we would look for the friends and talked about whether the friends were happy with Little Critter or what. It helped my children to really look at illu...more
Looks like Mercer Mayer has been spying on my house... it too, is Just a Mess! Great story for young kids. Maybe it will inspire a cleaning blitz? Hm.
Jun 09, 2011
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i think this book explained a good lesson. The lesson is that every time you clean your room you'll find something you lost.
Mercer Mayer is always a favorite of ours.
All these books are fun with great illustrations.
My favorite!
Fun!
The Little Critter books are so cute.
This book was a fun book. The story could be told completely from the pictures.
a cute story with a cute idea, using the stories of his daily life to teach children.
Another Little Critter story in which the children can find a lot of things to connect wi. This book is appropriate for children in the kindergarten and pre school age to do little activities of text to self connections.
The best Little Critter books acknowledge that children don't learn their lessons the first time they feel the consequences. This is one of the good ones. I do so wish I'd had this to read to my child when he was little and still trainable!
In this hilarious picture-book tale, the very popular Little Critter is forced to clean up his room in order to find his lost baseball mitt. His way of dealing with the mess is fast and funny -- and ultimately successful!
One of many Mercer Mayer books that teach a lesson. this book shows how cleaning your room can help you find things that you thought were lost. helps show responsibility.
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one of my FAVORITE authors of children's books!
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I began illustrating books in 1966. Since that time I have published over 300 books. Most of my books are about things that happened to me when I was a little kid. Now I'm a big kid and I write about things that happen now, especially with my own children. They always remind me of what it was like.
I was born in Arkansas in 1943. Boy, that was a long time ago! It's real fun to be an old kid. Then m...more
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I was born in Arkansas in 1943. Boy, that was a long time ago! It's real fun to be an old kid. Then m...more
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