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Every night trouble develops in the mouse family because everyone wants to watch something different on TV, but when the TV breaks down, the ensuing chaos becomes a delightful exploration of fun family activities to pursue.
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About the Author
Matt Novak has been writing and illustrating picture books for over 20 years. Among his many titles are A Wish for You, The Everything Machine, Flip Flop Bop, The Pillow War, The Last Christmas Present, and Elmer Blunt's Open House. His Mouse TV was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and Newt received an IRA Children's Choice Award. Matt has been a puppeteer, a teacher, and a Disney artist. While at Disney he worked on such films as "Rescuers Down Under" and "Beauty and the Beast." He and his family now live in Pennsylvania.
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All ten mouse family members are TV addicts, but each prefers a different kind of program. Papa likes action, but Mama wants comedy; spectacled Pinky favors science, but Sally loves music and Elmer watches game shows. Meanwhile, in screen-shaped frames, Novak lampoons the subspecies of each type--Laszlo's history in nine periods (cave-mice chased by a beach-toy dinosaur, a pig-pulled chariot, a turtle-tank war, mice on the moon); Melba's scary features (a mouse mummy, ghosts, and extraterrestrials); etc. Arguments crescendo during commercials (like real ones, these rival the programs in ingenuity). Then the TV fails, so the mice--now joining together--engage in activities that they have hitherto only watched: They explore, make things, sing, put on a play, and at bedtime Papa reads an adventure story. ``And best of all, there were no commercials.'' In a hundred and some frames, Novak outlines TV's offerings (excepting sex and, save in very mild forms, violence), giving a comically incisive visual summary of each in his cartoony illustrations. Delightfully imaginative, with dozens of witty details to discover and share in the deftly drawn art. (Picture book. 4+) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherOrchard Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0531087069
- ISBN 13 9780531087060
- BindingHardcover
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