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Mouse Soup (I Can Read Book-Level 2)
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Arnold Lobel
Weasel is ready for his dinner, and poor Mouse is it. Can he stop the weasel from serving up mouse soup for supper?
Paperback, 63 pages
Published
September 7th 1983
by HarperTrophy
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One day a weasel found a mouse and decided he would make mouse soup out of him. The mouse told the weasel that the soup would not taste any good without some stories in it and the mouse began to tell the weasel four stories. One about bees and mud, another about two large stones, another about crickets, and still another about a thorn bush. After the mouse told the stories the weasel asked how he could get the stories into the soup. The mouse told him he would have to go out and find a bee hive,...more
Level: J
A mouse is caught by a weasel but the mouse weasels his way out of being soup by telling several stories.
Another book that I had but decided to sell so I had to track it down and re-purchase it. I can see my daughter really liking it.
"Bees and the Mud"--A mouse has to convince a nest of bees that they will not like living on his head.
"Two Large Stones"--Two stones wonder what things look like on the other side of the hill.
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A mouse is caught by a weasel but the mouse weasels his way out of being soup by telling several stories.
Another book that I had but decided to sell so I had to track it down and re-purchase it. I can see my daughter really liking it.
"Bees and the Mud"--A mouse has to convince a nest of bees that they will not like living on his head.
"Two Large Stones"--Two stones wonder what things look like on the other side of the hill.
...more
This was my favorite children's stories growing up! Way back when books/television/music could be around without the corners being softened to protect our little heads way too much. The whole story is about this hairy fellow trying to eat a mouse in his soup--and of course, the fun part, the mouse always tricks him into hurting himself or failing. It contains other short stories as well, and when people ask me what book influenced me most as a child, I always mention Mouse Soup.
Clever Mouse! Clever stories.
"Bees and Mud" is my favorite so far: A beehive lands on Mouse's head and he tells the Bees to fly away because he doesn't want a nest on his head. "Oh no!", they say. "We like your ears. We like your whiskers. We like your nose. This is a fine place for our nest!" Isn't that sweet? They want to stay because they like his ears. Mouse ears are the cutest!
"Bees and Mud" is my favorite so far: A beehive lands on Mouse's head and he tells the Bees to fly away because he doesn't want a nest on his head. "Oh no!", they say. "We like your ears. We like your whiskers. We like your nose. This is a fine place for our nest!" Isn't that sweet? They want to stay because they like his ears. Mouse ears are the cutest!
Strange little book of stories. This book was first published in 1977, when I was a child, but I don't remember reading it. Our girls thought it was a fun book, but that some of the tales were odd. Each has a subtle moral, and together with the background story about the little mouse trying to get out of being a weasel's dinner, they combine for a fun overall story.
omg this book im inlove with it i know its under my level to read but doesnt matter ever since i was a little girl my mom used to read this book to and it helped me to read its really fun because it has different type of stories in it to trick the wolf. p.s. i still read this book many times. i dont care this book is for babies i love this book RESPECT IT! lml
32 months - we have read a couple of other stories that are based on avoiding getting made into soup or stew. This one is an interesting take on it. The short stories are very strange and quirky. I want to gain a moral from them but there doesn't seem to be one. Certainly for an early learning book this is much more interesting than most.
I owned this book when I was a little girl and it was one of my favorites. I recently bought a new copy for my daughter, who is 2 1/2, and she asks for it almost every night. It is such a wonderful, simple and sweet collection of little stories/fables. I recommend it for everyone who has young children. It really is a must-have.
Along with the Commander Toad books, we borrowed Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel from the library. We are fans of Arnold Lobel's offbeat stories and cute illustrations.
Mouse Soup is a sequel to Mouse Tales (1978). A little mouse who is captured by a weasel to be cooked into soup. To save his life, the mouse (like Shahrazad) tells four stories to teach the weasel how to make the perfect mouse soup.
These four stories are the bulk of the book. They are: "Bees and Mud",...more
Mouse Soup is a sequel to Mouse Tales (1978). A little mouse who is captured by a weasel to be cooked into soup. To save his life, the mouse (like Shahrazad) tells four stories to teach the weasel how to make the perfect mouse soup.
These four stories are the bulk of the book. They are: "Bees and Mud",...more
I love Arnold Lobel. Such a quirk sensibility. The stories are simple and clever. They almost feel like fables and they all go together. I particularly like the story about the thorn bush that starts growing out of a lady's chair. Why so many mouse protagonists in books though?
Doesn't quite compare to the grandeur of Frog and Toad or the adorability of Owl at Home, but with stories like the Two Large Stones and The Crickets, it'll do.
It's amazing how Lobel can craft perfect, real-life morals without ever slapping you in the face with them.
It's amazing how Lobel can craft perfect, real-life morals without ever slapping you in the face with them.
This is a cute book, but what I really liked about it was the author's craft. I enjoyed how the author wrote four stories within a story. I think this would make a great model for students in Writer's Workshop to write in the same fashion.
My kids' first Literature Circle book of the year! Arnold Lobel is growing to be one of my favorite children's authors. I love how he combines simple, sight word text with his witty little plots of animal life.
This is one of the few early readers I love so much I can't save for that crucial early reader stage, but have to read aloud to my preschooler. Green Eggs and Ham might be the only other one.
Frank absolutely adores this book. I suppose it probably doesn't help that his grandma has a little movie version of it, but really he found the book just as fascinating.
I love Arnold Lobel.
I love Arnold Lobel.
We love Arnold Lobel around here and this is just another one of his cleverly written little 'chapter books' that my 6 year old really enjoys reading to herself and to her siblings.
Yeah, I read a book in Spanish; you can be impressed. I had help of a translator at Intercambio at the library.
This is a very witty book, so it kept us going through.
This is a very witty book, so it kept us going through.
Eh. I thought this would be really cute and sweet, like Lobel's Frog And Toad books, but I wasn't happy with it. The plot of it didn't make much sense to me, and the stories the mouse told to get out of being made into mouse soup weren't very good.
One of my alltime favorite kids books. I still have my copy and now I read it to my kids. Still enjoyable even though I am 34.
This is a good book. It is a good book to read to children to teach them to use their "smarts" or their brain when they get stuck in a situation.
I still remember the illustration of the weasel with the bee stings from back when I first read it.
good early reader, demonstrates story format, how you can solve problems and development of stories
A childhood favorite that I enjoy reading to my kids. A fun take on the stone soup story.
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I think this is the right book... If I'm correct I loved this book when I was little! :)
The bees are the best. That mouse was tricky. Thank goodness or he'd be in the soup!
Read this was I was little and just bought it for my daughter today! :)
Not as good as "Mouse Tales," but still pretty darn good.
Next in the Lobel early reader/confidence builder collection.
Arnold Lobel rocks.
And this book is absolutely adorable.
And this book is absolutely adorable.
I like how the mouse tricked the weasel or something.
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Arnold Stark Lobel was a popular American author of children's books. Among his most popular books are those of the Frog and Toad series, and Mouse Soup, which won the Garden State Children's Book Award from the New Jersey Library Association.
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