A rhyming story of opposites that uses animal charactistics to help us explore ourselves and our feelings.
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear FROM OUR EDITORS It's a rainy night, and granny is snoring on her bed. A sleepy boy plops on top of her, then a dog crawls up and dozes off on top of him. Next, a cat leaps up and settles for a snooze, and a teeny mouse jumps to the tippy top of the slumbering pile. All sleep happily, until a wakeful flea bites the mouse...ouch!!! Wood uses gradual changes in color and perspective, and her gleeful cumulative tale ends in sunshine and play. ANNOTATION Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself.
FROM THE PUBLISHER Who likes strawberries? The mouse does. The bear does. But the reader plays the key role.
FROM THE CRITICS Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot Gorgeous double page pastel pictures with a mouse whose facial expressions will delight young readers have kept this book in print for years. Easy to read text tells the story of a little mouse who will do anything to save his strawberry from the big hungry bear. Don Wood is a previous Caldecott award winning illustrator.
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