Mouse Paint Board Book

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The intense levels of pigmentation used for all the paint bases gives an incredible depth of colour, whichever format you prefer using.

One day, the cat takes a nap and the three little mice discover three jars of paint and climb right in. It’s perfect for kitchen cabinets, skirting boards, interior and exterior doors, stairs, floors, wooden furniture, metal radiators and any other interior or exterior wood or metal surface. Yes and definitely, I totally, I absolutely adore (and also do appreciate) how Ellen Stoll Walsh in her 1989 board book Mouse Paint (nicely small in circumference and as such perfect little hands, for toddlers to hold by themselves, on their own) with very simple mouse themed contents (with words) and delightfully expressive accompanying artwork introduces both the primary colours of red, yellow, blue and also demonstrates how mixing these then creates entirely different hues (that yellow combined with red makes orange, that yellow mixed with blue makes green, and that blue and red create the colour purple), with Mouse Paint presenting itself as engaging, with a lovely sense of both textual and visual fun, as educational without any kind of annoying didacticism and heavy messaging. Now the mice find puddles that they accidentally spilled and decide to dance each one in their own separate puddle. The story is about three white mice standing on a white piece of paper camouflaging themselves so that cat won’t see them.For when in Mouse Paint the three mice start playing with and in the paint jars and become colourful and thus no longer white, the cat is then not shown by Stoll Walsh as suddenly noticing and trying to chase the mice, the cat just seems to totally disappear, leaving kind of an annoying textual thread going nowhere (which does not really bother my inner child all that much but certainly is a bit frustrating to and for my adult reading self). When the mouse jumped in the red paint, I asked the kid to find the word "red", which I knew he could read; he found "blue" and "yellow" without being asked. The story is cute, the illustrations are bright and fun and we laughed when we saw that the mice took a bath in the cat's water dish. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. ELLEN STOLL WALSH is the author and illustrator of many award-winning early concept books for young children, including Mouse Paint, Mouse Count, and the Dot and Jabber trilogy.

December 2015 update: Read this again while our youngest and our two-year-old niece were otherwise engaged playing with wooden puzzles in the board book section of our local library. Walsh's cut-paper collage illustrations have bold colors and just the right simplicity for the storyline. Perfect for fans of Lois Ehlert and Press Here, this charming board book gently explores the world of color and celebrates the joy of creativity.They first dive into the paint to color themselves, then splash in paint puddles and discover that primary colors, when combined, make new colors. Ellen is the daughter of Joseph Adolphus (a businessman) and Nell (Orum) Stoll; married David Albert Walsh (a professor), August 25, 1964; children: Benjamin Martin. It could have been a bit more FUN for my taste but she has requested it three nights in a row so who am I to argue!

There is a misleading introduction at the start of a cat, suggesting that it will present some threat or action which never takes place.I like this book because of its simplicity, sometimes there are some concept books who are good teaching a subject but are way to complex so what is good about this book is that it uses white mice as the main focus and then has them dip in and mix paint to make new shades of colors. Meinen Schülerinnen und Schülern hat das Buch sehr gut gefallen und die Farbtänze der Mäuse sorgten für einige Lacher. I don't like the constant insistence in our media to cast cats as villains in our culture, but I like the way it was just presented as a gentle fact that cats chase mice in this book. We've read this one a couple of times and our youngest was very proud that she could read it all by herself.