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A World to Explore (Library Mouse #3)
by
Daniel Kirk
One night in the library, Sam meets fellow mouse Sarah. Sam learns that Sarah is quite the explorer. She loves to scurry to the tops of shelves and explore the darkest corners of the building. Sam never climbs far up—he’s too afraid! He prefers to research subjects—such as exploration—and write about them. Sarah doesn’t know much about writing or research, but could readin...more
Hardcover, 30 pages
Published
August 1st 2010
by Harry N. Abrams
(first published 2010)
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Although I have a stupid irrational fear of mice, Library Mouse: A World to Explore is an excellent book to add to the library curriculum. Library mouse shows how there are some different forms of research. I would strongly suggest reading this to 1st-3rd graders who are beginning to learn about research. This story really teaches what research is and even how to do it (to some extent). Sam likes to do research and go on adventures through reading about different things and places. Sarah likes t...more
One evening in the library, Sam meets another mouse named Sarah, the adventurer. Sarah is all about roaming high up in the shelves, leading her to far off places she wants to visit. Sam on the other hand never adventures into the shelves especially, on top of them because he is a afraid. He would rather read about things and write about them instead. Sam does however show Sarah that by reading books you can still have fun adventures. So in return Sarah shows Sam that actually going on adventures...more
Sam is a library mouse who lives behind the children’s reference books. One night while taking a stroll through the shelves and looking at the “Discover Our World” display a mouse named Sarah falls into his path from a parachute. She says she climbed all the way to the top of the world display and jumped. Sam is amazed at her bravery and shows her some of the amazing places that the world display features. Sam and Sarah love looking at all the places around the world and they even dress up as th...more
This book, a part of the Library Mouse series that I love, is about two mice. Sam, the library mouse who is a bit timid when it comes to exploration, and Sarah the adventurous mouse who lives across the library. They meet and Sarah encourages him to face his fears and explore the top shelf that he has never explored before.
This book is great for grades K-2. It isn't incredibly interesting for older students.
Library Mouse: A World to Explore by Daniel Kirk, is an adorable little book about facing...more
This book is great for grades K-2. It isn't incredibly interesting for older students.
Library Mouse: A World to Explore by Daniel Kirk, is an adorable little book about facing...more
Sam is a little mouse who lives in the library. He loves to read books about adventures and explorations, and one night when he was reading, he meets another library mouse named Sarah. Sarah loves to explore different parts of the library, especially the top shelves that Sam has never even considered climbing up to. Together Sam and Sarah go to places in the library they had never seen before and bravely embark on fun adventures that Sam writes about on his own.
I think this would be a great st...more
I think this would be a great st...more
This book is just fun for kids to read. You could definitely integrate social studies into this lesson. This book talks a lot about the different places in the world as the mice travel through their library looking and reading about all of the different places. This could be good motivation for the students to start doing research about the own world they live in by using their school library.
Sam the mouse has a new friend in the library, Sarah the mouse from the other side of the library. Together they go on a "research adventure" learning about the world through the exploration of books. The illustrations are more appealing than the original Library Mouse. I particularly enjoyed the posters on Sam's wall of Sam receiving the blue new berry and a mouse sleeping on a caldy-cot!
This book has a female lead character is seems afraid of nothing. She manages to get Same, the library mouse, away from his books to explore the world. In the end they help each other with overcoming their fears. Sam ends up writing a book in the end which was exciting for me. This is a great way to show children that they can write about anything and anyone can become an author.
A mouse comes to the realization that it's okay to live vicariously through books or writing if you still have at least one person, or in this case - a mouse, who thinks you're normal and will drive you to explore things in new ways.
Moral of the story: "Be weird, kids! There's at least one crazy person that will be your friend out there somewhere, probably your mom!"
Moral of the story: "Be weird, kids! There's at least one crazy person that will be your friend out there somewhere, probably your mom!"
Feb. 2012 Book Fair selection
Out of the Library Mouse series, this one is probably my least favorite, although it does have Meadowview's "World to Discover" theme! Sam the mouse meets a new, adventurous friend, Sarah the mouse. She convinces Sam to take adventures throughout the library. Nice tie-in with the adventures to books about those places.
Out of the Library Mouse series, this one is probably my least favorite, although it does have Meadowview's "World to Discover" theme! Sam the mouse meets a new, adventurous friend, Sarah the mouse. She convinces Sam to take adventures throughout the library. Nice tie-in with the adventures to books about those places.
Just my humble opinion...when peer pressure from the more adventurous mouse leads library mouse into a situation which he wishes to avoid ("you're not afraid, are you?" she asks!), not once in this book but TWICE--it may be time for library mouse's author to re-assess the franchise. Rather than using these situations as an opportunity to establish confidence of library mouse by standing up to peer pressure, the author plays off these situations with the explanation that library mouse never met a...more
36 months - We love the adventures we've had through books and as O get older I look forward to discovering some of the places we've read about in real life. There are some reader complaints that the less adventurous mouse shouldn't have been pushed to do things he wasn't comfortable with but on the other hand sometimes a new friend is the perfect person to push us beyond our comfort zone and get us up that ladder at the playground, or encourage us to go down the slide.
This book is adorable! It's about two mice that live in the bookshelves at the library. They decide to go on an advernture and explore the unknown. This book would be great to talk about in science when discussing exploration. Students can write about an adventure they had.
As a parent I found this book to be very boring but my 4-year-old loves it and wants me to read it over and over again. When I asked him why he likes it so much, he said he loves when the mice drive in the jeep and fly in the airplane. For that reason, I gave it 3 stars.
Apr 23, 2012
Katie Brown
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
animals,
anxiety,
bravery,
confidence,
fiction,
friendship,
imagination,
libraries,
mice,
persuassion,
trying-new-things,
adventure
This book is about a mouse, Sam, that lives in a library. He never explored more than his area of the library until he meets another mouse, Sarah, from the other side. She is a very adventurous mouse. She talks Sam into exploring the top shelves although he is very hesitant at first. With some persuading, Sam conquers his fears and goes exploring. This is a good adventure book.
A great encouraging book for kids to see that it is okay to be afraid and then courageous enough to face those fears with friends!!
My daughter truly enjoyed this new favorite and my eldest son was thrilled for another 'library mouse' book again!!
My daughter truly enjoyed this new favorite and my eldest son was thrilled for another 'library mouse' book again!!
What fun to see the adventurous protagonist be a girl!! Sweet book encouraging children to explore their library for adventures on the pages of books.
I picked this book up because it was about libraries. However, I didn't find anything that I truly enjoyed about this book. The illustrations were aggravating, the text dragged on without any feeling to it, I didn't enjoy the fact that the mice were tearing up the library at night and the librarians weren't being proactive with the taxpayers' property and setting out traps.
shares how the one can explore and find all different types of subjects in the library -
I really liked that the adventurous character here was the girl mouse Sarah...
Four stars is really for how much my son enjoys this book :)
For once, the girl gets to be the daredevil!
nothing new here.
Decent intro to research for very young readers.
Sam, the library mouse, loves to go on adventures in the pages of books, but he is nervous about exploring the world until his new friend, Sarah shows him that readers and writers are explorers, too.
A great book for showing young readers the fun of researching topics that interest them.
A great book for showing young readers the fun of researching topics that interest them.
*Thanks to Abrams Books for Young Readers for providing a copy for review.*
Cute, but way too long to read to a crowd.
Good sequel with more fun adventure.
Jun 18, 2013
Caroline Higginbottom
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