Run, Mouse, Run!

by Petr Horáček

Book Overview

Vibrant artwork and a quick, compelling story will entrance little readers of this die-cut novelty book from an award-winning author and illustrator. With his trademark glowing hues, simple shapes, and clever die-cut designs, the innovative Petr Hor?cek creates a new animal tale perfect for preschoolers. In RUN, MOUSE, RUN!, the tiny protagonist does just that - over the chair, across the table, and through a shoe. What could this little mouse be...

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763628247
• ISBN13: 9780763628246
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 6.2"
• Age Range: 3 years and under

Customer Reviews

Fun, fun, fun book!

This has been one of our favorites for a long time. It's fun to follow the cute little red tailed mouse as it scurries over the chair, table, shoe, box etc (all objects have very clever and interesting contours) . The last page when the mouse quickly hides in the hole leaves my toddler in giggles, begging for an encore :).

Wonderful book!

My 9 month old daughter absolutely loves this book and it has been one of her favorites since she was 6 months old. She loves to follow and point out the mouse on each page. I highly recommend this book for babies and toddlers.

EEEEK... A MOUSE!!! EEEK! A MOUSE! Clever Surprises and Excitement

The excitement starts on the very first page of this board book with illustrated flaps (smaller pages illustrated on both sides) between each full size board book page. "Hurry, mouse! Run..." (Look to the right and there's a flap showing the mouse scampering over a chair) "over the chair," (Turn the flap, and there's a two=page spread of the mouse climbing up a table) "across the table," And so on. I wondered if the mouse was the chaser or the chasee. He runs down the table (Horacek conveys movement through the mouse's outstretched paws and limbs, and a big trailing tail), and into a box of cookies! On this spread, Horacek gets a 3-D effect through the cut-outs in the pictured box, revealing something almost black on the next page. That "something" is the mouse's hole, again cut-out for a sensation of depth. Good thing, too, because when you turn the page, there's a BIG black cat with green eyes, and a hungry look, just outside the mouse hole. Through the cut-out mousehole, we now see the little mouse safely inside. IT's almost magical--on one page the mouse is outside his hole, and on the next the mouse is inside! Couple the special effects (i.e., the flaps, the cut-outs) with Horacek's simple but revealing sentences, bright colors and patterns, and familiar objects (cookies!) and you've got yourself a treat for your infant or young toddler!

Great for your budding bird lover

My 14 month old will barely sit through a book most of the time. We really like this one. All the things birds do--hop, peck, flap, etc.--are illustrated page by page. There are many ways to make this book interactive--several of the pages have holes (a bird house hole; a little hole pecked in the ground), and one page is cut along the bird's wing so you can flap it.

Loving it

I love this book. My daughter loves it especially for the little peep holes in it that she will look through. She just cracks up if I put my eye up to one to look at her through it. I recommend this book to anyone who has a child who loves birds or who wants to start a fasination in them.