This House Needs A Mouse
This House Needs A Mouse has to be one of the cutest books out there. It starts:
“This is the story of a house. An ordinary house with ordinary windows and ordinary doors. Ordinary ceilings and ordinary floors…. and three families.”
But even before we started to read it, they loved it. When I got it out of the mail I placed it on our coffee table, before I could go get my cup of tea, the girls were fascinated with the illustrations. Every page was full of color, and more then that… life. There is not an inch ANYWHERE in this book that is dull, or not filled with amazing drawings of what is going on. It immediately sparked the interest and imagination of my little girls. They were making up stories to go along with each page before I was back with my cup of tea.
Then once we started into actually reading this book, they were hooked. They simply fell in love with this little mouse. (They were very upset though, no where in the story did he get a name. So we named him Pip) They were happy when we found a house, they boo-ed when the family was mean, and cheered at the end.
It was wonderful to see my girls so excited about a book. And even last night, when we went to read a bed time story, they didn’t want the princess books, they didn’t want to re-read Frozen.. They wanted to read……. This House Needs A Mouse.. WIN!!
What are your kids favorite books? What kinds of things do they like to read?
12 Comments
Jess
What a cute book! 🙂 I’ll have to get this for my nieces!
Thanks for joining the Link Up this week!
Kat Ryan
It is sooo cute. Totally worth adding to the collection
Julie
This book looks really cute. My 2 year old, Sophia, loves The Hungry Caterpillar and gets excited when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly. She loves Eric Carle’s books.
Heaven Smiling
I’ve never heard of this book. I found you on a blog hop. Thanks for the recommendation. I will ask for it at our library. I also love the name of your blog.
Kat Ryan
I hope that you love it as much as we do. Please let us know 🙂 Thanks for stopping by
Lou Lou Girls
What a great post! Love it! Pinned and tweeted. We love to party with you, so I hope to see you tonight at 7 pm. That would be so awesome.
Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls
Kat Ryan
Thanks!!!! I will be linking up soon 🙂
Christie
This sounds like a great book! Thanks for sharing at Totally Terrific Tuesday! I hope you stop by again this week. The party starts tonight at 10pm!
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Kat Ryan
All Linked 🙂
C. Jeffrey Nunnally
WOW! One of my favorite reviews! So enthusiastic and authentic! I must thank you for such a kind review of my book. Tell your kiddos I said, “Hi!” I hope they still enjoy the book from time to time. It just garnered a nomination for the Colorado Children’s Book Award! Total surprise to me! My best to you and your family! Clinton
Kat Ryan
OMG you read my review!!! I am so honored. The girls jumped around so excited that someone “famous” would read about them!! It was a great book, and one that we read several times a week. Thank you again
C. Jeffrey Nunnally
So glad the girls continue to enjoy it! Have a wonderful Spring! Clinton