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CatMouse by Ian Schoenherr

stefaniejane's review against another edition

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3.0

Cat and mouse romp to some nursery rhymes and toys.

kuhreenzie's review against another edition

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4.0

Cat & Mouse is story about a cat and mouse playing together. This charming book is a mixture of the classic nursery rhyme "Hickory, Dickory, Dock" and "Meenie Miney Mo". Sure to capture readers with huge capturing fonts and amusing illustrations, this book is appropriate for first grade and below. An activity that can be done with first grade is focusing on different rhymes. The teacher can enlarge the story and nursery rhyme for all students to see during circle time and together as a class, the teacher and students can go through the words that rhyme. As a class, students can also create their own nursery rhyme on chart paper and each student can input their own drawing on the poster. This poster can be kept in the classroom year round.

alfajirikali's review against another edition

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3.0

Great illustrations.

bookarian's review against another edition

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3.0

"hickory dickory nursery rhyme, cats, mice, eeny meeny nursery rhyme"

kgormley's review against another edition

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4.0

Story of a cat and mouse who are friends. The story breaks off into a couple of different nursery rhymees (Hickory Dickory Dock, Eeny, Meeny, miney, mo ...) throughout the book. Fun for the kids to say along as you read.

maidmarianlib's review against another edition

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3.0

Unique combination of text and traditional nursery rhymes. Illustrations are fun and quite realistic.

kil3yp's review

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5.0

Love this! Cute book about being good and getting along, but also incorporates the two nursery rhymes Hickory Dickory Dock and Eenie Meenie Miney Moe! Great lead in for doing those two nursery rhymes during story time.

tashrow's review

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4.0

Cat and Mouse play together, wrestling over a paper umbrella. The text follows a nursery rhyme, changing into Hickory Dickory Dock, and then returning to the original rhyme. As Mouse gets the best of Cat time and again, will they end up as enemies or friends?

The lively illustrations bring the old-fashioned text to vibrant life. Both animals are captured with attention to minute details, but then are made wide-eyed and action filled to great comic effect. Families who have kittens or cats will recognize Cat's movements and body postures as being purely feline. Mouse is much more human than Cat.

Enjoyable, laugh-out-loud nursery rhyme fun. This book will work well for groups of children, and is ideal for use in story times or classroom units. Appropriate for ages 3-5.
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