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The Town Mouse And Country Mouse. (2012)

by Helen Ward(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1848774923 (ISBN13: 9781848774926)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Templar Books

review 1: Ward's rendition of the story provided atractive and vivid illustrations. The classic tale in this book was enjoyable. As others have mentioned though, it was hard to differentiate the city mouse from the country mouse which made it a little confusing to read & convey to the kids during preschool storytime. The kids had fun pointing out the many pictures and things in it though and enjoyed the book overall and brought about good discussions.
review 2: I read this to my preschool class as a comparison to the version we are studying in our reading unit. My students enjoyed it well enough, and it has a lot to recommend it.The illustrations were beautiful and I appreciated that the mice were drawn like real mice instead of the cutesy ones wearing clothes that's ... morenormally found, however, for my students, it made it harder for them to tell the town mouse from the country mouse. Even though they were different colors, there was nothing about them that spoke to their specific place of origin. I really enjoyed the text on each page. It was written almost like free verse poetry, short enough that my students didn't lose interest, but wasn't afraid to drop some more difficult vocabulary like 'sumptuous'.You could tell the story was set in the past though the illustrations, though I wouldn't have known it was the 1930's if it hadn't said so in the front flap. But it was nice that it did have a certain set time rather than simply 'once upon a time'. less

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