CLAP! CLAP! HURRAH! HOORAY! The Thankgiving Mice are putting on a play! Told in verse, cute costumed mice scurry on stage to explain about the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. Full of wordplay and repetition, this holiday favorite is now available in an easy reader format.
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Bethany Roberts has written several popular books for children, includingseven Holiday Micebooks, Monster Manners, Cat Parade, and Waiting-for-Christmas Stories.She lives inHamden, Connecticut.Visit her website at www.bethanyroberts.com
reS-Gr 1-The origins of Thanksgiving are explained by a group of mice as they put on a play for their animal friends. Cushman's cheerful spreads show the little creatures using handmade props and putting their all into this neighborhood production. The characters are charming and the colors are vibrant. Where pictures appear in a smaller frame, objects often extend into the borders for visual appeal. The problem comes with the text. Short rhyming stanzas at first seem to offer a pleasing read-aloud pattern, only to dissolve into an odd scheme, and readers may constantly try to recover a poetic balance that isn't there. Another problem comes with fictionalizing the Pilgrims as mice and keeping true to the Thanksgiving account. These diminutive Pilgrims wear clothes, sail on the Mayflower, suffer a hard winter, and plant corn, but that continuity breaks when "They built new homes in tree trunks-" instead of houses. There is a scarcity of Thanksgiving books for this age group that can adequately explain the historical significance of the holiday in very simple terms. Halloween Mice! (Clarion, 1995) by the same duo hit upon a combination of text and pictures that works very well, but it isn't trying to tie in a historical concept. If you aren't overly concerned with an odd poetic structure or a break in the logic of mice as Pilgrims, then this book should fill a gap in read-aloud Thanksgiving material for the younger set.
Carol Marshall, Bridgeport Public Library, CT
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