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Mouse Match: A Chinese Folktale

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Mouse Match is a great tool for learning about diversity. The openness of Mama and Papa Mouse to their daughter marrying even another animal race speaks volumes to children who only determine differences between races (as well as species) by their appearance. Those children become more open and tolerant of people of different race, ethnicity, religion, and creed--an essential social skill to success in the world of today and tomorrow.

This childrens book is a delight for children or adults. The story reads two directions;one way in Chinese and the other in English. Great gift!

Like all parents we want our children to love and respect our daughters, we also want her to marry well, to be the greatest and most powerful. So out goes Papa Mouse to find someone worthy and thinks he's found the one! The Sun, but the Sun tells him someone else is better than he. When he goes to each prospective suitor he is told again that someone else is better until he is directed back to the mouse holes.

Ed Young has really made a beautiful book based on a Chinese folktale, which Young actually found out that this story has been also be told in Ethiopia, Germany, Native American people, France, Germany, Korea, India, Burma and Japan where in some versions the main characters are people or rats. The book is very unusual because it is not like the books you are use to reading - this book is done in accordion style. The book unfolds and on the other side of the pages is told in Chinese characters.

The illustrations are actually a collage and is beautiful! This would be a great story to use during the Chinese New Year for the Year of the Rat / Mouse.

The seller went out of her way to make sure the book would be exactly what I was expecting. She went so far as to put a personal note with the book.
It felt as if she really cared about getting me what I needed.