Mouse Went Out to Get a Snack

By Jim McFarland and Lyn Rossiter McFarland

A mouse counting on a snack A peckish mouse on the hunt for a light snack - something like a piece of cheese - climbs up the table and finds a feast fit for a king. He prepares an enormous platter filled with everything from chicken legs to tacos to cupcakes - and of course there's cheese, too. However, the cat is onto him, and a chase ensues as the mouse desperately shoulders his smorgasbord back to his hole - but it's too small! All the food flies up, up, up, landing on the unfortunate feline. All except the cheese, that is, which bounces safely into the mousehole. In addition to being a happy adventure with the simplest of texts and hilarious pictures, there is the bonus of counting the items of food the mouse piles on - and later loses - from the single cheese portion up to the ten slices of chocolate cake.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374376727
• ISBN13: 9780374376727
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 3 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

Great book for pre-schoolers - and the rest of us!

This is a clever, fun counting book with a hungry mouse gathering delicious goodies for a snack. He ends up with way too much on his plate and forgets about the cat which results in mouse losing almost everything he is carrying back to his mouse hole. The illustrations are especially good in this book which adds to the fun.

If You Give A Mouse a Banquet

It's one thing to draw a cute little mouse with which kids can identify, but it's even better when you see things from the mouse's point of view. The McFarland spousal team presents a perfect marriage of text and illustration in a delightful cat and mouse story that doubles as a counting book. The small mouse has small goals-just a little snack ("Something like a piece of cheese") for his hungry tummy. However, as we follow...

Great Mouse Adventure

In the tradition of great mouse-adventure stories where the quest is to eat LOTS of food while avoiding detection from either cats or humans, MOUSE WENT OUT TO GET A SNACK by Lyn Rossiter McFarland is a gem. I would say MOUSE WENT OUT TO GET A SNACK is a combination of your typical mouse book such as MOUSE MESS and a counting book such as Eric Carle's THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR. The essential plot is that very sensibly "Mouse...