Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends
Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends
Ages 4-8
Hardcover, 48 pages
8.1 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
ISBN: 978-0547152226
Get the book
In this Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award Winner, early readers will meet two creative friends who set out for a day of bird-watching. Although none of the birds seem to want to keep still and enjoy being watched, Mouse and Mole have a good time solving problems together and learning the fine art of compromise during their day out. If you pay close attention to the friends’ creative activity in this book, you’ll learn how to transform your sweatshirt so the birds won’t notice you (so much) and you can follow their three-part strategy for constructing a comfortable nest.
Mouse and Mole’s friendship is reminiscent of Arnold Lobel’s classic buddies Frog and Toad. This particular Mouse and Mole book also pays homage to the color palette and book design of the Frog and Toad books, in its use of foliage greens, bark browns and yellow-gold. The gentleness and exuberance of the illustrations is contagious in the best sort of way.
This is a book that celebrates the learning value of arts and crafts, the joy of the natural world, the pride of publishing one’s own work, and the art of working out conflicts and differences between friends. In other words, a parent’s or teacher’s jackpot!
If after reading this gem, your children are not begging you to make a bird costume out of their sweatshirts, or to create their own illustrated books, I’ll write you a poem myself.
Here’s a video look at Frog and Toad’s excellent swimming adventure:
