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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780399215988
ISBN number: 0399215980
Label: Philomel
Manufacturer: Philomel
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 28
Printing Date: September 02, 1988
Publishing house: Philomel
Age index: Baby-Preschool
Sale Popularity Level: 52318
Studio: Philomel
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From horse to crocodile to giraffe, no one wants to be the little mouse's friend, until he meets up with a friendly, familiar face--and not a moment too soon! Full color.
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I bought this book as a part of a gift pack, with a cute blue stuffed elephant. The book is so disappointing. There are no words, so you make up your own story, which is fine and fosters creativity. But when you start to make up words for the story, you find that the photos are implying that the mouse will only be friends with his own kind, another mouse. Very disappointing. I am trying to find a tolerant, accepting spin on the illustrations so I can "write" my own story.... not easy to do. IMO, the stuffed elephant is the only worthwhile part of the gift pack.
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This book is smaller than a postcard, it is very hard for any early reader to decode the words with such a small print and not even talk about reading it to a group of children (that is what i wanted to do). I'm returning it.
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I love Eric Carle books but did not realize how small this book was. I thought the price was too high for this size of a book
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The book seems to present a narrative similar to P.D. Eastman's Are You My Mother?, which presents the very normal process whereby a lost young bird searches out the identity of its as-yet-unseen mother by unsuccessfully speaking to, among other other things, a boat, a plane, and a cow. The difference, as I see it, between the two, is that every attempted friendship sought out by the mouse in Carle's story is with another creature, until he finds the companionship most suited to him, that being with his own species. What a young child might take from this is probably very basic: mice probably find more in common with other mice. However, if applied to human relationships, it may be that the "message," if there is one at this level to deal with, probably favors the notion that of all the possible friends out there for someone, one is more suited to a person than all the rest. I wouldn't go so far as to say that the book condones some kind of rejection, because, after all, in real life it does take some effort for any child to find a special friend. Further, I wouldn't say that the book reinforces the idea that only people like us can be our friends because, once again, it is a good thing to encourage a child to imagine a uniquely suitable friend just for him or her. If they don't seek out the child who is most different from everyone else, it does not mean that child is insensitive, just that finding a friend might be more spontaneous and innocent than we parents and teachers may like to admit-even when the child finds someone who happens to look like him or her.
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I loved this book. Because it has hardly any dialogue, it challenges the imagination of the "reader." It can be read over and over with never having the same story. Having read it to my two toddlers, I have always told the story in a positive light where the mouse plays with all of the animals along his way home. At the end of my version of the story, the mouse finds his brother or sister where they run off to their special fort. Each time I've read it, the story and dialogue have been slightly and sometimes widely different from the other times. I think that the book opens up so many possibilities and stretches the imagination. For young toddlers flipping through the book on their own, it also encourages that the pages be turned in order as the mouse follows the tail of his subsequent friend and leaves the child to figure out to which animal each tail belongs. The pictures are colorful and simple and as beautiful as any of pictures of other Eric Carle books. Highly recommended for those who like open-ended stories!
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