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Run, Mouse, Run! (Reading Together)

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My 14 month old will barely sit through a book most of the time. We really like this one. All the things birds do--hop, peck, flap, etc.--are illustrated page by page. There are many ways to make this book interactive--several of the pages have holes (a bird house hole; a little hole pecked in the ground), and one page is cut along the bird's wing so you can flap it.

I love this book. My daughter loves it especially for the little peep holes in it that she will look through. She just cracks up if I put my eye up to one to look at her through it. I recommend this book to anyone who has a child who loves birds or who wants to start a fasination in them.

The excitement starts on the very first page of this board book with illustrated flaps (smaller pages illustrated on both sides) between each full size board book page.

"Hurry, mouse! Run..."

(Look to the right and there's a flap showing the mouse scampering over a chair)

"over the chair,"

(Turn the flap, and there's a two=page spread of the mouse climbing up a table)

"across the table,"

And so on. I wondered if the mouse was the chaser or the chasee. He runs down the table (Horacek conveys movement through the mouse's outstretched paws and limbs, and a big trailing tail), and into a box of cookies! On this spread, Horacek gets a 3-D effect through the cut-outs in the pictured box, revealing something almost black on the next page.

That "something" is the mouse's hole, again cut-out for a sensation of depth. Good thing, too, because when you turn the page, there's a BIG black cat with green eyes, and a hungry look, just outside the mouse hole. Through the cut-out mousehole, we now see the little mouse safely inside. IT's almost magical--on one page the mouse is outside his hole, and on the next the mouse is inside! Couple the special effects (i.e., the flaps, the cut-outs) with Horacek's simple but revealing sentences, bright colors and patterns, and familiar objects (cookies!) and you've got yourself a treat for your infant or young toddler!

My 21-month old son absolutely loves the book!We found it at the public library and had to renew it TWICE before I decided to buy it! He can "read" it mostly by himself, and he enjoys touching each page because they all have a different effects (scalloped edges for flapping, a little hole for pecking, etc).

This book is fun to read. Each page describes the mother bird on her journey to gather food for her chicks. We bounce as we read "hop, hop, hop on the wire" and flap our wings as she flies over the field, etc. The illustrations are beautiful and I don't think we will tier of this book any time soon!

My 14 month old son loves this book. We originally checked it out at our library and he loved it so much we bought it and Bird Fly High as well. He loves to turn the pages and poke his little fingers into all the holes. Bright colors and simple text----- both books are winners in our house.

This has been one of our favorites for a long time. It's fun to follow the cute little red tailed mouse as it scurries over the chair, table, shoe, box etc (all objects have very clever and interesting contours) . The last page when the mouse quickly hides in the hole leaves my toddler in giggles, begging for an encore :).

My 9 month old daughter absolutely loves this book and it has been one of her favorites since she was 6 months old. She loves to follow and point out the mouse on each page. I highly recommend this book for babies and toddlers.

This one is so fun to read! I love how the mouse is going up the table leg and as you turn the page his body outline now shows him ready to run across the table. The layout is set up very well!
The mouse is racing... racing... and finally... safe in the hole. This is one I don't mind reading again... and again.