Mouse Paint Board Book

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Mouse Paint was perfect for this kid, who told me that it is his destiny to be an artist: the pictures are simple, beautiful, and dynamic. Ellen is the daughter of Joseph Adolphus (a businessman) and Nell (Orum) Stoll; married David Albert Walsh (a professor), August 25, 1964; children: Benjamin Martin. I don't like the constant insistence in our media to cast cats as villains in our culture, but I like the way it was just presented as a gentle fact that cats chase mice in this book. As an art teacher, I have read this book to hundreds of kindergartners over the years before teaching primary and secondary color theory. The story is cute, the illustrations are bright and fun and we laughed when we saw that the mice took a bath in the cat's water dish.

I think the earlier you can interest small children in reading the better; books like this are the perfect to transition from being read to to reading on your own. I think this book did have some positive intentions though, but the way it was portrayed could be troublesome for a young child. Yes and definitely, I totally, I absolutely adore (and also do appreciate) how Ellen Stoll Walsh in her 1989 board book Mouse Paint (nicely small in circumference and as such perfect little hands, for toddlers to hold by themselves, on their own) with very simple mouse themed contents (with words) and delightfully expressive accompanying artwork introduces both the primary colours of red, yellow, blue and also demonstrates how mixing these then creates entirely different hues (that yellow combined with red makes orange, that yellow mixed with blue makes green, and that blue and red create the colour purple), with Mouse Paint presenting itself as engaging, with a lovely sense of both textual and visual fun, as educational without any kind of annoying didacticism and heavy messaging. I thought it was a little confusing because the of pictures displayed and the mice jumping in the puddles could be misleading to young kiddos.They washed themselves off to become white again and decided to paint on paper instead to create the newfound colors. LE: After the story you can take the children to the art center where you will have paper and finger paint ready for them.

Both parents and children alike will appreciate this lighthearted presentation of a lesson in color. But truth be told, I must admit to finding the inclusion by Ellen Stoll Walsh of a cat in Mouse Paint and how said feline is no threat to the three mice when they are white (because the cat supposedly is not able see white mice on a piece of paper) a bit ridiculous and problematic since Ellen Stoll Walsh really and truly does nothing with this.One day, the cat takes a nap and the three little mice discover three jars of paint and climb right in.

and therefore making Mouse Paint / Pintura de raton a simple and wonderful dual language book (and also a book that in my opinion would also work very well for introducing colours in elementary level Spanish language courses). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This environmentally friendly matt emulsion paint has a unique formulation, perfect for hard-working homes and public places. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There is a misleading introduction at the start of a cat, suggesting that it will present some threat or action which never takes place.

However, albeit that Mouse Paint is to and for me a three star book (as that cat textually not really doing anything except being kind of a placeholder so to speak is certainly more than a bit of an annoyance), well, obtaining and reading the 2010 dual language English/Spanish edition of Mouse Paint, yes, this does make me raise those three stars to a very solidly and appreciated four stars for Mouse Paint / Pintura de raton. ELLEN STOLL WALSH is the author and illustrator of many award-winning early concept books for young children, including Mouse Paint, Mouse Count, and the Dot and Jabber trilogy.