If You Take a Mouse to School
If You Take a Mouse to School
Author: Laura Joffe Numeroff
Desc: The Barnes & Noble Review Bringing a plucky mouse to school isn't the wisest idea no matter how much fun it might seem. Thankfully the bestselling duo of author Laura Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond -- creators of If You Take a Mouse to the Movies and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie -- have teamed up to show us the hijinks a whiskered school guest could cause. Starting with asking for your lunchbox this critter is set for mischief. The feisty mouse asks for a snack for later (cookies of course) a notebook and pencils and wants "to share your backpack too." After he arrives at school the pushy classmate tries his hand (make that paw) at math and writing on the blackboard afterward whipping up a messy pink science experiment and building a "little mouse house" from blocks. The schooltime antics don't stop there but a busy mouse tends to get hungry after so much playtime. Naturally his snack is in the lunchbox which is stored "in a safe place" with his new picture book inside. Following the whimsical style of their previous books Numeroff and Bond have done it again. Their high-adrenaline mouse will have readers cheering while their eyes comb the illustrations for extra nibbles of fun. Although the book's main human character looks positively exhausted at the end we can only holler for more of the little guy with the huge school spirit. Matt Warner