| | |  | Kitties | Home » » Mouse Paint | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | One day three white mice discover three jars of paint--red, blue, and yellow. Both parents and children alike will appreciate this lighthearted presentation of a lesson in color. “Walsh’s cut-paper collage illustrations have bold colors and just the right simplicity for the storyline. A real charmer that’s great fun as well as informative.”--School Library Journal
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• ISBN13: 9780152002657
• Condition: New
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Ellen Stoll Walsh | | Board book:
| 16 pages | | Publisher:
| Harcourt, Inc. | | Publication Date:
| October 31, 1995 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0152002650 | | Product Length:
| 4.2 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.2 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.27 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 39 reviews |
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The Cutest Colorful Mice You'll Ever SeeJul 29, 2010
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh is one of the more treasured books around my house. It tells the story of three white mice who jump into three jars of paint, get themselves soaked with paint, drip it on the floor, and then jump in the puddles to dance around and, in the process, make new colors. The illustrations are done by collage, and they are very happy and whimsical. It's a great way for children to learn their primary colors, and how mixing two colors together produces a third. Plus, it introduces the idea of camouflage, when the white mice hide from the cat by huddling on a white piece of paper. I know that some of the concepts in this book may be suitable for a four year-old (i.e. such as camouflage, or the mice who wash themselves by jumping into the cat's water bowl), but we've been reading it at a much earlier age. My three year-old loves the cute mice, and their funny antics as they jump into jars of paint, and dance around, getting all dirty in the process. The baby is drawn to the jars of primary colors, and the colorful mice who dance around the page. This is one of those books that you will read at various stages in your child's development, and at each age, will get more and more out of it.
 An Entertaining, Engaging Toddler BookJul 17, 2010
This playful, lucidly-written fantasy about three mice will entertain and amuse young readers while introducing them to a bit of color theory. In the story, three white mice discover three pots of paint on the white paper where they live. They first dive into the paint to color themselves, then splash in paint puddles and discover that primary colors, when combined, make new colors. Finally, they wash themselves clean (in the cat's water bowl) and paint the paper with all the available colors -- except for a section of white where they can hide from the cat.
This story is probably best suited for babies and toddlers, but its humor will also appeal to the kindergarten and early-elementary ages.
Great for teaching color mixingFeb 06, 2010
Mouse Paint is a great book for teaching color mixing to Primary Aged children. The children get caught up in the action of the mice which helps them to remember the color combinations. Fun!
Great book!Nov 19, 2009
I love, love, love this book. It is so cute and while it tells the story about the three mice, it demonstrates how mixing the primary colors together result in other colors. I highly recommend this book!
Update: There is a bit of a mess up in the color on one of the pages. I have the board book so it may only be in this version, but when the mice get in the paint, they are supposed to be blue, red and yellow. The red mouse however is orange, but only on this one page. The rest of the book is fine as far as colors go and it is still one of my favorites for teaching colors.
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A great mix of humor, cuteness and learningNov 26, 2008
An ingenious, droll little children's book intended to teach them about colors. At ten months, my son is too young to appreciate it very much, but I read it to him anyway just so I get the chance to enjoy its storytelling, artwork, didactic skill, and humor.
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