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Good book. Some stories are good and some are just ok. Wish there were more pictures.

A fun book for small children

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I read this book regularly to my young daughter who is 22 months old. I think this is a good book for even young children like my daughter because there are certain repetitive aspects to many of the stories which makes them a little easier for young children to follow. The illustrations are very small and very cute and despite being tiny have enough detail to keep a child's interest. One minor problem - one of the last stories has a scene where a grandmother mouse hits the grandfather mouse over the head with a rolling pin (gotta love books from the '70s!). This upsets my daughter quite a bit so I always skip that story. Otherwise, a very fun, short book for kids of all ages.

A favorite!

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This was my favorite book as a little girl, and it is now my 4-year old son's favorite book. All of the stories are adorable, especially "The Journey".

Mouse Tales

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ISBN 0064440133 - Based on the reading level, Mouse Tales is for 6-8 year olds, but I think younger children will enjoy it quite a bit, as well.

Papa tucks his seven boys into bed and promises them seven stories, so long as they promise to go right to sleep. Once they've promised, he starts with The Wishing Well... and tells the seven stories, ending with The Bath. His boys have all fallen asleep by then and Papa says good night.

The stories are all so short that just recapping them would be pretty much the same thing as retelling them! There are great possibilities within the very few pages of this book. With simple words and a fairly large font, the stories can be read by a child easily. He or she will find them fun and engaging. They can be read to a child by an adult, who might like to explain the deeper meanings of some of the stories (for instance why, once the mouse in The Wishing Well helped the well, all of her wishes came true). But, much to my surprise, there's a little Aesop's Fables feel to the stories, which might be one of the most unexpected ways to read this little book - as an adult! This isn't true for every story - if it is, I haven't found the message in the story of the mouse who wears out his feet and gets new ones. Still, all around a charming set of bedtime stories with nicely done illustrations that don't take up three-quarters of every page.

Mouse Tales

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There are seven short tales, all involving mice, and bookended by a father mouse who is telling these stories to his children at bed time, one per child. The seven stories included are: The Wishing Well, Clouds, Very Tall Mouse and Very Short Mouse, The Mouse and the Winds, The Journey, The Old Mouse, and The Bath. Of the seven, my favorite is The Wishing Well as it takes an unusual and humorous approach to the usual wishing well story. The most disturbing of the stories is The Journey because it involves replacement feet. Knowing Sean, I think his favorite will be The Bath because of the absurd bath/flood the little mouse creates just to get clean.