Mouse Paint is an excellent book for young children. This book is great for children learning their primary colors, and how colors can change to form new colors. I recommend Mouse Paint to teachers and parents with young children. It is easy to read, and the illustrations are cute, too.

As an art teacher, I enjoyed the way in which this book presents the concept of primary colors, secondary colors and color mixing. It is easy to read, easy to understand and entertaining for young children who are experiencing the "science" of color for perhaps the first time, and for those who are re-experiencing it, it makes it fun and entertaining all over again.

I originally bought this book when I was a preschool teacher a few years ago. Now my 18 month old son loves to read this book with me, and help find the colors. It has really helped him learn to identify different colors, and he loves to point out the adorable little characters. The illustrations are different from your average children's book, and it has definitely stood the test of time in our house!

This is an excellent choice for kindergarten teachers that are looking for a book that is simple in its vocabulary and number of words per page, yet rich with meaning and personal connections for children.

What a great book for children! Not only is it a well written story with a message that all children can relate to, the pictures are enchanting! --A great extension activity for this book, if you teach, is to have the children use wallpaper samples or wrapping paper to write and illustrate their own version of this story. You may even want to encourage them to turn the story into a play and act it out! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!

This is an extremely clever book that explains to the youngest audience how stories are written. With gentle humor in both the text and the illustrations, this book works both as a fairy tale and as an introduction to writing.

VERY simple story about a salamandar who seeks magic that can conquer his fear of the dark -- but eventually finds the magic was within him.

This book is mostly pictures, very little text. Easy to read to little people. Those who are very fearful will find a champion to admire in Pip. Helps children learn that the world is much more than a big scary place... there's magic, too.

I haven't read this book recently, but remember reading it all the time as a child. I remember the soft illustrations, and the feelings of Brunus. I think my parents got this book for me at the arrival of my baby sister, when I was four. I remember reading the story and feeling the same way Brunus did, when Heek came in the mail. It is one of very few books that I know I remember reading.

I secretly prefer Brunus and the New Bear to the later works of renowned author and artist Ellen Stoll Walsh, probably because I remember reading it when my own children were very young. When a boy named Benjamin receives a new teddy bear, his "old" bear Brunus grows jealous and tries to hide his rival under the rug. This book charmingly tells the story of sibling rivalry in a way children will understand and relate to.

Having heard several times that this book and its companion, Mouse Paint, were clever and fun reads for children, we got this book, but I was pretty disappointed. While the artwork is charming, the premise of the story is that sleeping mice are being stored in a jar to be eaten later by a snake. Like another reviewer, when reading aloud I skip the snake repeatedly describing them as "little, warm and tasty". The idea of the mice cleverly escaping and then counting down as they escape is good, but I don't find that the "counting up" is particularly well done, so that children don't necessarily develop a better understanding of counting or numbers. To be honest, our toddler likes the book, so I've given it three stars, but IMHO there are much better books for children out there.

As a preschool teacher I like this book.
Far from the snake's description of the imprisioned mice making it inappropariate for children: it is a good moral lesson! Don't be greedy! It is also not a problem because mice are on earth to be food for the snakes and the preditors are not "bad" animals; there are just fulfilling their role in the ecology.
I don't like it as much as "Mouse Paint" but it is a fine counting book.

My three year old son loves this book even more than Mouse Paint. Despite previous reviewers' concerns about the mice being described as "little warm and tasty," this part makes my son laugh the most. He loves counting backwards, tipping side to side to mimic the mice as they tip the jar, and repeats the moral to the story on a regular basis.

This book reminds me of Hello Red Fox by Eric Carle in terms of concept, though the story is quite different. Hello Red Fox was only about complementary colors -- the story was about going to a birthday party and all the animals were shown in complementary colors (Red Fox was depicted in green) so the reader's eyes would do the "trick" and see the character in the "correct" color. Unfortunately, some people, myself included, were not able to "see" the colors no matter how we stared. However, I was easily able to see the effect here. In this book, a raven is teaching a mouse "magic" tricks using complementary colors. For example, mixing blue and yellow to make green, then using that green in a pattern with red. What happens is the colors move around in your field of vision. I am not sure that a young child would be able to understand this book without the help of an adult. But, with that help, I think the book does illustrate its point rather effectively. I also think it could have lots of applications for teachers to use with their classes when they teach about colors. There is an author's note at the end which explains the color wheel and primary, secondary, and complementary colors. I wish the author's note, or some other kind of explanatory device, were at the beginning of the book, though, because it would make it easier for kids to follow.

This is a cute story, but after reading "Mouse Paint" and "Mouse Count" (books that all three of my children adored) this book just didn't seem quite as good. This book is about a little mouse named Samantha who is always getting the worst of it from her siblings. A fairy Godmother's protection seems like the answer, but soon Samantha learns that you can miss out on a lot, if you're always holding back, playing it safe. It's a cute story, with an interesting lesson, presented in a style that your children will enjoy, and if you are a fan of this author's other Mouse books, this one makes a good addition to your collection.