Mouse's First Christmas - Hardcover

Thompson, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689823258 ISBN 13: 9780689823251

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

While exploring the new sights, smells, and sounds in the house on Christmas Eve, a little mouse discovers the tree, a candle, a candy cane, a stocking, a jingle bell, presents, and Santa Claus. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Lauren Thompson and Buket Erdogan dreamed up Mouse's First Christmas out of their desire to create a book for young children that captured the wondrous sights, smells, and sounds of the Christmas season. When the two aren't working on their own books, Lauren edits for a children's publisher and Buket creates images for greeting cards and a children's apparel manufacturer. Writer and artist live only a few blocks away from each other in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

From Booklist:

Beginning with echoes of Clement C. Moore's "The Night before Christmas," this picture book tells of a little mouse exploring the decorated living room and discovering one mysterious new thing after another. Each find excites the senses: cookies "sweet and sparkly," cocoa "warm and melty," and a tree "tall and prickly." Finally he encounters Santa Claus, who whispers, "Tis your very first Christmas and all through the house no one is loved more than you, . . . little mouse." The appeal to the senses, the urge to explore, and the final reassuring message will strike a chord in young children. The painterly artwork will resonate, too, with its simplicity of images, warmth of colors, and mysterious play of light and shadow. An appealing choice for the very young. Carolyn Phelan

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0689823258
• ISBN 13: 9780689823251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Erdogan Buket