The mouse who ate the moon

Petr Horáček

Book - 2014

Gazing at her beloved full moon at night, Little Mouse is unable to resist taking a nibble of a delicious banana that she believes is a piece of the moon that has fallen from the sky, rendering the moon no longer round.

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Genres
Picture books
Published
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press 2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Petr Horáček (author)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Item Description
"A peek-through story book"--Cover.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN
9780763670597
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Review by Booklist Review

Horácek's Mouse is the latest picture-book protagonist who would like to gobble on a bit of tasty-looking moon. At first she wishes just to have her own piece. When she finds in the morning that her wish has been granted, she discovers that the moon smells delicious. Just a tiny nibble soon becomes half a devoured moon-slice. Distraught at what she has done, Mouse confides in friends Rabbit and Mole, who assure her that no one can eat the moon. Readers, who will have been chuckling along at Mouse's misunderstanding of her lunar meal, will be satisfied with the congenial ending. Horácek's mixed-media illustrations are delightful and cozy: Mouse wears striped socks, mittens, and a tail-warmer; and the forest is cool blues and greens, which take on a snug shine when the moon comes out. Horácek enhances the illustrations with cutaway pages for peek-a-boo moments within the story when Mouse gazes lovingly at the moon from within her hole, the reader can, too. A yummy tale just right for bedtime sharing.--Dean, Kara Copyright 2014 Booklist

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Review by School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 1-Little Mouse loves looking at the moon from her hole in the ground and wishes she could have a piece. It seems the moon, framed in a round window, has lost its bottom crescent. No wonder she thinks that the yellow banana she finds the next morning is her piece of moon. She nibbles the sweet-smelling fruit and is stricken by the thought that the moon can never be round again. Rabbit and Mole say that no one can eat the moon, but she keeps telling them she did. When it gets dark, her friends take Little Mouse to the top of a hill. Looking at the starry sky, she sees the moon as round and whole as ever. She and her friends finish eating the rest of her moon treat. The bold acrylic, pencil, and crayon illustrations feature clever peek-through cut-outs, with characters carefully positioned on dense blue and green landscapes. The pages, with sculptured corners, lead readers deeper into the story. The multidimensional artwork is a visual treat, and the gentle story is told with simplicity and wry humor. Whether the moon is made of cheese or bananas, "really nobody can eat [it]."- Mary Jean Smith, formerly at Southside Elementary School, Lebanon, TN (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Uh-oh, did Little Mouse just eat part of the moon? One evening, Little Mouse, tucked cozily in her bed, gazes out of her holea round, peek-through cut-out in the book's pageand thinks: "The moon is beautiful...I would love to have my very own piece of the moon." The next morning she finds a banana just outside her home and believes it's a piece of the moon fallen from the sky. It smells so delicious that she just takes a little bite...and then another...until there's only half a banana left. Now Little Mouse worries that because she ate part of the moon, it will no longer be round. Banana in tow, she trudges past her friends, Rabbit and Mole, confessing her crime to them. They reassure her, "Nobody can eat the moon." But for some people (or mice), only seeing is believing, so Little Mouse's wise friends coax her out at nightfall to a hilltop, where they see, peeking out from behind jagged cut-paper treetops, the bright, rounded top of the rising moon. By the next page, readers see Little Mouse jumping for joy in her orange-and-yellow stockings at the sight of the full moon. The richly textured, collaged mixed-media illustrations are rendered in deep indigos, spring greens and bright yellows. This sweet, simple story provides a springboard for talks about shapes and simple fractionsand possibly what other celestial bodies can't be eaten. (Picture book. 3-7) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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