PreK-2. Piggie tries to teach Gerald (the elephant) to dance. They try simple moves like forward and back, but Gerald just can't dance. In frustration, Gerald expresses his feelings in such a physical manner that a few mice recognize the newest dance sensation: The Elephant!
PreK-2. Grandma Twilley ends up getting her spring cleaning done when she finds a mouse in her house and invents clever ways to chase it out. This would be a great storytime read as the mouse is hiding in the illustrations on each page and it would be a fun kid challenge to find the mouse in each picture.
If you give a mouse a cookie...begins this cute story in which one things leads to another and the beginning becomes the end. A cookie leads to milk and milk leads to a straw and a straw leads to a napkin and so on and so forth until milk leads to a cookie bringing this story full circle. This book is perfect for storytime! Preschoolers and up will love this story and its central character: the needy little mouse.
Babymouse is exactly that: a baby girl mouse. She wants one thing: a pet. She tries her pet parenting skills out on a fish, hamster, salamander, turtle, hermit crab, sea monkeys, ferret, and venus fly trap, but ends up losing all of them. With not so much as one success in terms of pet parenting Babymouse's parents are hesistant to let her care for a stray dog, but she proves to be an excellent dog owner in that she walks, bathes, and trains Buddy only to have to hand the dog over to its rightful owner at novel's end. A humorous graphic story told in comic book panel format with black and white illustrations highlighted with pink young boys and girls alike will laugh out loud as Babymouse learns what it takes to be a pet owner.
Geronimo Stilton is editor of The Rodent's Gazette in New Mouse City. He wants nothing more than to lead a quiet life at home, but his sister, Thea, convinces him to accompany her on a mission to find lost treasure! Geronimo, Thea, Trap, their cousin, and Benjamin, Geronimo's favorite nephew, all hop aboard a ship in search of the Emerald Eye where they expect to find treasure. What follows is a humorous account of the many adventures the unlikely crew find themselves mixed up in at sea. From "fresh" clams to falling overboard to a hurricane to quicksand and finally land ho! young readers will enjoy the fast pace and short chapters filled with colorful graphics and illustrations.
Ricky Ricotta is a mouse with a robot for a best friend. This book focuses on their battle with Mr. Mosquito who wants to take over Earth because he's tired of the changing weather conditions on Mercury. Mr. Mosquito makes an army (out of his nail clippings, gross!) and invade Earth. Ricky's robot defeats the mutant mosquitoes, but Mr. Mosquito takes Ricky hostage and morphs his spaceship into a giant mosquito robot to battle Ricky's robot. Ricky's robot refuses to fight knowing Ricky's inside, but Ricky devises an escape plan and begs Mr. Mosquito to let him use the restroom. While in the bathroom, Ricky sneaks out the window and jumps into his robot's large hand. With Ricky safe, his robot fights Mr. Mosquito's robot and saves the world!
