Mice are Nice - Hardcover

Larrick, Nancy

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039921495X ISBN 13: 9780399214950

Publisher: Philomel, 1990

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A collection of poems about mice by David McCord, A. A. Milne, John Ciardi, Ian Serraillier, and others.

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From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3 --Plenty of cats appear throughout the pages of this companion book to Cats Are Cats (Philomel, 1988), but the world view presented here is distinctly that of the mouse. With a roster that reads like a who's who of children's poetry, Larrick has chosen 25 delightful verses that describe mice, their habits, and their houses. Always twittering, chittering, squeaking, and scampering, the diminutive whiskered scamps, whether indoors or out, are portrayed as being resourceful, gentle creatures who love to play and who have an uncanny knack for making themselves at home in the most unlikely of places. Young's rich charcoal and pastel illustrations are the earthy color of mouse fur and have a velvety softness. His mice, each a fitting subject for its poem, are naturally irresistible without being cute as they dash on and off the pages, climb in and out of containers, and perform amazing acrobatics. Their ears and eyes are ever alert to danger and their industry is captured in the energetic renderings. The poetic images and their faultless artistic interpretations make for an e-nor-mouse-ly appealing collection. --Luann Toth, School Library Journal
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From Publishers Weekly:

Like the pearl-gray ears of the deer mouse which inspired this collection of poems about the pitter-pattering creatures, the illustrations here are simply exquisite. And as in Cats Are Cats , Young and Larrick's stellar previous collaboration, Young's delicate charcoal and pastel drawings are dominated by shades of brown and black. The depictions of mice seem to be infinitely varied--a mouse clings to an oar in a cloud-like sea (in John Ciardi's "The Light-House-Keeper's White-Mouse"), another hangs from a take-out food carton by what Theodore Roethke calls its "lizard-feet." A cigar box and an overturned bottle--"space enough, / Even in / Small spaces" for a mouse, writes Valerie Worth--become in Young's hands rich studies of light and form. Although the inclusion of some poems seems redundant, even the less interesting works are given depth, humor and drama by the intensity and beauty of Young's deceptively simple drawings, in which the light of the moon and stars is almost palpable. All ages.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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