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The Mouse That Snored

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The Mouse that Snored is a funny picture book by Bernard Waber. You may remember Waber from Lyle, Lyle Crocodile or Nobody's Perfick.

Written in rhyming verse, a bit of the text goes like this:

The quiet man's quiet wife

padded about in slippers.

She never made the faintest sound

not even while zipping zippers.

The quiet of this couple's life (they live in a country house, with a cat and a bird; the bird is named Will and likes to say 'Hush! Be still!") is broken by the arrival of a city mouse who falls asleep in their pantry, and awakens the house with a snoring that trembles the light fixtures and bangs the shutters.

The pictures are very much the same as Waber's general sloppy style, but are humorous and kids will get a kick out of them. The text is easy to follow but sometimes uses words that most kids won't know (tureen, for example).

There are sometimes 5 or 6 panels on a page, like a comic strip. This makes the book inconvenient or perhaps impossible for storytime situations. Kids have to be close up to see The Mouse That Roared. I couldn't see myself reading this book to a group of 4 or more children; they would have a hard time seeing the illustrations.

Children age 4 and 5 love this book, but my two year old son finds the book hard to follow. I think the cluttered sloppy illustration style is the reason. The text is basically simple, and rhyming,with a few difficult words.

This isn't a classic like Lyle, but it's a decent picture book, and funny in places...

Not our favorite book but nice variety. Good for a few laughs. In retrospect wish I had kept it as a library book instead of an our book.

In the beginning of the book we meet to of the main characters in the story. They are a couple who enjoy being quiet. Things are good for them. They live in a quiet house in the country. That is until a loud city mouse comes to visit! He's loud and he also snores!! Will the couple be able to get id of him or will they have to accept his ways? Read The Mouse that Snored to find out!

It has extraordinary illustrations that would captivate the attention of any child, even ones with short attention spans.

I would recommed this book for kids ages 5-8. They will enjoy the story read aloud or to read silently to themselves