MOUSE COUNT

by Ellen Stoll Walsh ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1991

In the crisp, clean illustrative style (cut-paper collage on a white ground) that was also used in Mouse Paint (1989), here's an innovative counting book that also tells a startlingly suspenseful story. Ten sleepy mice are collected by a snake (three together, then four, then the last three) and stored in a jar in which they can still be counted. But before they can be eaten, one wily mouse sends the greedy snake in quest of a last, larger ""mouse"" that is really a rock; meanwhile, the mice manage to rock the jar over and escape. Walsh's gentle humor, nicely honed telling, and well-crafted page designs combine to make this an unusually pleasing rehearsal of the numbers from one to ten.

Pub Date: March 1, 1991

ISBN: 0152002235

Page Count: 32

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 1991

Categories: CHILDREN'S