Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Letter Writing Mouse

Title: Love, Mouserella
Author:  David Ezra Stein
Illustrator: David Ezra Stein
Published: The Penguin Group
Copyright:  2011
Pages: 32
Category:  Children


I chose this book because it was just a funny and cute picture book. The book is about a mouse, which Grandmouse comes to visit and leave. She misses her so much; she writes a letter to tell her the different events going on since she left. She writes about the blackout, grab the cat whisker, and her brother bothering her. As she writes the letter, she includes drawings, maps, and photos to share with her Grandmouse.
The illustrations in the book are very brilliant. The illustrator use watercolors, crayons, stencils, and pencil. The illustrations are meant to interpret the mouse drawings that are done in crayons. The text is written in crayon and certain words are written differently to show meaning. The book is in a letter and landscape style layout.
This book is recommended for kindergarten through second grade to show them how to write a letter. I feel this book would be a great tool for early literacy skill writing, to show the students how she writes just like them. This books it really good for character education showing the respect she has for her Grandmouse. This book does not have any awards.

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