I Am the Mountain Mouse - Hardcover

Marino, Gianna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0451469550 ISBN 13: 9780451469557

Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers, 2016

Synopsis

Here is a timely tale of a mouse who thinks he’s a lot braver and better than anyone around him. Undaunted by extreme heights, wild animals, or angry birds, this mouse is determined to conquer every obstacle in his path. He climbs, dives, and does all that he can to prove how brave he is. "I am the mountain mouse!" he shouts when he summits his first not-quite-mountain. And this is usually the warning for his minions to take cover . . . because what they see and what Mountain Mouse sees are never quite the same!

Full of slapstick silliness and adventurous antics, I Am the Mountain Mouse points out how ridiculous a big ego can be . . . in a quite deliciously over-the-top way!

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About the Author

Gianna Marino spent her early years galloping horses through Golden Gate Park and writing stories of her adventures. She has traveled throughout the world and now lives in Northern California, where she writes and illustrates full time. Visit Gianna at giannamarino.com.

From School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2—Everybody knows somebody like the Mountain Mouse. Ambitious, self-centered, and oblivious, he wreaks havoc on the lives of his mouse friends in the name of adventure. Arranged in comic book-style vignettes called "stories," with dialogue set into speech bubbles, the narrative begins with a contested piece of cheese that the Mountain Mouse claims because he is bigger and can climb higher than the others. It continues as he clambers up the leg and onto the hump of a camel, asking the large creature, "What are YOU doing on MY mountain?" In each of the little chapters, the four mice friends find themselves in a pickle because of the actions of the Mountain Mouse. Sleep in a raptor's nest right when the egg hatches? No problem! Dive into the cat's water dish as soon as the cat arrives? Why not? Telling drawings of the Mountain Mouse sleeping on, landing on, and otherwise abusing the other mice will have readers wondering why the rodents remain friends. Marino does a nice job of illustrating the group's antics and expressions in gouache and pencil on paper. There is no resolution to the ongoing drama, but children will enjoy predicting what that narcissistic mouse will be doing next. VERDICT A wonderful storytime read. Pair it with Laura Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.—Lisa Lehmuller, Paul Cuffee Maritime Charter School, Providence

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0451469550
• ISBN 13: 9780451469557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 40