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there's a mouse about the house

8/31/2017

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"Mom, can we do it again?" You know you have an engaging book in your hands when your toddlers can't get enough of it! There's a Mouse About the House, a book written and illustrated by Richard Fowler, is a clever book that combines storytelling with fine motor development and reading preparation. 

To use this book, you take the little cardboard mouse out of its sleeve on the front cover and slip it through the slot. This transports the mouse into a playroom, where you learn that he is on a search for food. A dotted line directs the mouse from one slot to the next, where he slips through a crack in the floor to the kitchen. Slots in each page take you on a tour of the house as the mouse looks for food. But watch out for the cat, the parrot, and Mr. and Mrs. B! 

I wasn't sure what to make of this book at first, as it has a very 1980's feel - but oh boy, is it fun! My boys really do "read" through it over and over. The reason the book develops reading and fine motor skills is that you have to be pretty intentional to get the mouse through each slot, and the movement is always from left to right across the page. Fun way to get kids practicing essential skills without even realizing it! 

It's that book your kids will pull off the shelf on their own to try over and over again - and that they will learn from each time.

Book benefits:
  • Book is hands on, developing fine motor skills as little ones move the mouse from one slot to another
  • Left-to-right movement develops early reading and writing skills
  • Playful story will keep kids coming back for more!​
Buy There's a Mouse About the House here! (hardcover, $11.99)
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Buy the companion, A Squirrel's Tale, here (hardcover, $11.99)
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7/6/2022 12:32:51 pm

I loved this book as a child in the 1980's. We used to go to an old bookshop in Winchester, England, that was run by a lovely old man, who had a built up shoe, due to one leg being shorter than the other. If you were quiet, and looked carefully with clean hands, he would let you browse for as long as you liked. Afterwards, if you were small, like I was, you were allowed to have a ride on the old rocking horse. I went back to look at this book every week, until I'd saved enough birthday and Christmas money to buy it. I've never forgotten it, that little adventuring mouse, taking the reader through a house, up and down a clock and daring to show where a mouse shouldn't go.

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