NICE NEW NEIGHBORS

by Franz Brandenberg ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 12, 1977

The Fieldmouse children's solution to being out of things on their new block--a production of ""Three Blind Mice"" with a part for everyone--is so deucedly clever that only the beginning-reader elite is likely to take it all in. But there are classroom possibilities for the play itself, as well as a generous tenor to the encompassing story. It seems that the neighbors' children don't need the Fieldmouse children for tag or ring-s-round-a-rosy or hide-and-seek: ""There are enough of us,"" say the lizards and grasshoppers and snails. But when the Fieldmouse children (""There are enough of you,"" Father reminds them) start to put on their play, the others want in--and the Fieldmice make up new parts which also give the old rhyme a new, happy ending. Tiny strip drawings with balloon dialogue are an added attraction to a book that may serve best when it's not read strictly alone.

Pub Date: Sept. 12, 1977

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Greenwillow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1977

Categories: CHILDREN'S