Theme: Mice

Seven Little Mice Go To School

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

It’s time for seven little mice to start school! And it’s up to Mother Mouse to get them there. When the little mice prove reluctant, Mother Mouse invents “the mouse train” — all aboard!

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Chester

By Richard Clift | Published: January 19, 2010

Chester is more than a picture book. It is a story told, and retold, by dueling author-illustrators. Melanie Watt starts out with the story of a mouse in a house. Then Melanie’s cat, Chester, sends the mouse packing and proceeds to cover the pages with rewrites from his red marker, and the gloves are off. [...]

Descriptors: Canada, Early Years (ages 2-6), Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Cat

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Cat. Dog. Tall Tree. Thank goodness for that! A cat’s life is not all fun and games, or even all milk and mice. With very few words used to convey all kinds of action, Mike Dumbleton’s sparse yet descriptive text joins perfectly with Craig Smith’s whimsical illustrations. Cat will have young listeners on the edges [...]

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Thomas : Book Three Of The Deptford Histories

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Two country mice are tricked into boarding a ship and embark on an adventure during which they try to keep a fragment of a jade egg from falling into the hands of those who wish to use it to return the evil known as Gorscarrigern to the world.

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Lizzie Nonsense: A Story Of Pioneer Days

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Her mother calls it nonsense when Lizzie pretends that their house is pretty or that a bath is the sea, but it turns out that imagination runs in the family.

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Welcome To Zanzibar Road

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

After moving into the house on Zanzibar Road that her neighbors helped her build, Mama Jumbo decides to share it with Little Chico.

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Down The Back Of The Chair

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A poor family is searching down the back of a chair for Dad’s lost car keys and, miraculously in the mess of things back there, their financial problems are solved.

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The Children Of Mauritania: Days In The Desert And By The River Shore

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Compares the daily lives of a Moorish girl and a Halpoular boy from different regions of Mauritania, children of different ethnic backgrounds who are linked by their Muslim religion.

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A World Of Holidays!

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Describes family festivities all over the world, including Japan, Pakistan, Namibia, Canada and Mexico.

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Half Of An Elephant

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

One night, all of a sudden, the world split in two. An elephant woke up to find that half of him was missing. So he set off to look for it.

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