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Thanksgiving Mice!

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"Come one, come all, come see our play!" In the newest addition to this popular series, the holiday mice put on a play for their woodland friends, to tell the story of Thanksgiving. Dressed in Pilgrim costumes, they journey on the Mayflower, experience hardships, sow corn, and celebrate with a Thanksgiving feast. Told in lively verse, this book tells the history of Thanksgiving in simple terms for the picture book set. The mouse characters are as endearing as always, and the illustrations lend humor to the story, as the mouse characters struggle with props and preparations. Young fans of the holiday mice will love this delightful book celebrating Thanksgiving!

Adorable mice enthusiastically bumble through a Thanksgiving play for their friends. But they successfully convey the history and joy of the day, and then have a fun feast with their friends to celebrate. This book is a lively way to give children the basic history of Thanksgiving and is a fun read as well. Highly recommended!

The holiday mice are back, this time to celebrate Thanksgiving! These charming little characters perform a Thanksgiving play for an audience of animal friends. The fun rhymes and colorful illustrations tell the story of the Pligrims as they sailed to America, struggled with hunger and cold, grew corn, and at last celebrated with a Thanksgiving feast. In a satisfying ending, the mice celebrate Thanksgiving with a delicious feast of their own. Just right for the youngest readers, this book is a Thanksgiving winner!

This is a pleasant but fairly mediocre Thanksgiving book for young kids. Its premise is that mice are putting on a play about the first thanksgiving. We watch the show and then cheer at the end. The artwork has a few clever moments in it depicting stage hand mice pushing Plymouth rock props into the scene, etc. The text, however, doesn't flow very well. It is told in terse couplets, as if in verse, yet often the verses fail to rhyme - or if they do, we wait a few pages for the rhyme to come. Thus, any readaloud singsong quality which the text is apparently meant to have (and which is the only thing that might compensate for its abruptness) is foiled. The idea of the play is engaging enough to make this an interesting addition to the sometimes thin genre of Thanksgiving picture books.

Not as cute or informative as I had hoped. I was looking for an age appropriate Thanksgiving story for my 3-year old, but this is defintely more for toddlers than preschoolers. Not quite exciting enough to hold his interest.