Little Library Mouse (Hollywood Book Festival Award) (Library Binding)

Little library mouse takes young readers along on his quest to become new characters and visit new places. Children will enjoy the escapades told with rhythm and rhyme. Each stanza's antic includes an aspect of the world of books, introducing young readers to terms like sentence, glossy, page, and paragraph. Each vibrant, colorful full-page illustration depicts a book and mice involved in that story's delights.

Tara's picture book should be a winner with children and parents encouraging the love of books and the use of their imaginations. After all, library mouse introduces children to the greatest adventure of all-reading. -- Reader Views "www.readerviews.com", 2006

The magical ability of books to transform readers in time, place and personality is beautifully presented through the short, pleasing rhymes and bright colorful illustrations in the children's book 'Little Library Mouse: Even When You Are Little, You Can Imagine Big' by Stephanie Lisa Tara.

The story is told through what is essentially a series of short poems, each one- to two-page spread illustrated by Alex Brown's lovely artwork, both sweetly simple and engagingly detailed. When the library closes for the night, a little mouse slips out of his hole and leaps into a leading role in the stories of book after book.

"I'm skipping! I'm sliding! / Turn a page, step inside, / Books wait like miracles / Now come along for the ride," the mouse exclaims to his companions before experiencing life as a king, a queen, a clown, a juggler, a ladybug, a lion, a tiger and more, all through the enchantment of literature. This oversized picture book is perfect for hoisting a youngster or two into your lap and letting them follow along as you read. It's easy to imagine children repeating these clever rhymes or running their fingers over favorite details in the highly imaginative artwork.--P.L.H. -- Little Library Mouse, Patricia Lynn Henley

What do a mouse, a trapeze and a library have in common? The answer lies within the pages of the Little Library Mouse, by Stephanie Lisa Tara.

A nameless mouse jumps into action, through rhyme, as the library is closed for the evening. We're invited on a journey as the mouse "sails on a sentence" and becomes library book characters, including a ship, a wild animal and a circus act.

Tara enchants us with her storytelling as she makes a library tour exciting, encouraging literacy and reading. Little Library Mouse is to be applauded for its light-as-a-feather rhymes, a style Tara undoubtedly perfected while earning a B.A. in English.

The illustrations, by Alex Walton, are bold, confident, full-page drawings of a mouse as he takes on the identity of the story he becomes.

This exciting adventure is sure to please the preschooler set and would also make a great baby shower gift. It would also be an excellent jumping-off point for parent/teacher and child to create new rhymes, based upon Tara's format.

Armchair Interviews says: This story, as with the Man on the Flying Trapeze, "floats through air with the greatest of ease." Bravo, Little Library Mouse...bravo! -- Armchair Interviews, "armchairinterviews.com", 2006

ven when you are little you can imagine big, so begins this adorable book. Written in rhyme, the story begins as the clock goes tick-tock, is that the key in the lock? It is the end of the day and the library is closed. A white mouse dressed in a purple suit begins to tell of his adventures, of all the things he can be.

With the help of books he can be a clown, a juggler, or a lady bug on a leaf. On the pages he flips, he finds good cheer in storybook trips. In winter he's snow spinning a silvery fable, frosted wilderness-white on the library table. He's a king, he's a queen, and upon all words he stands tall.

He's red, he's yellow, and he's iridescent blue. Short stories are rainbows of sharp color and hue. He is paper, he is ink. He becomes any book he reads. He can read, he can imagine so can you, take a look

If you want to stimulate your child's imagination this is the book for you. It is colorful and fun to read. Who doesn't love cute little mice, as long as they are illustrated in books? Each page is filled with fantasy and wonder. -- Shirley Labusier, "Book Talk", February 2007

Witty verse and verse and fantastical illustrations celebrate the joys of reading in this tale with innovative charm.