Mice on Ice

by Rebecca Emberley, Ed Emberley (Illustrator)

Overview

Thought-provoking visual illusions and characters that are bright, bold, and original accompany a text that is pleasing to the ear yet just right for the newest reader. Mice skate on ice. As they skate, their blades leave lines that depict a cat. Magically, the cat appears, color, graphic, and three-dimensional. What happens next? Why, the cat and the mice skate together! An I Like to Read® book, Guided Reading Level C.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823429080
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	09/01/2013
Series:	I Like to Read Series
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	110L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Rebecca Emberley has written and illustrated more than thirty books for children. She lives in Maine.

Ed Emberley has created more than eighty books for children, including DRUMMER HOFF, which won the Caldecott Medal. He lives in Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

"An accessible, inviting title for brand new readers."—Kirkus Reviews
 
"Cheerful artwork in the Emberley's signature style brings the text to life. Created with cut paper and digital elements, the characters stand out brilliantly against the plain backgrounds."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

The latest collaboration from the father-and-daughter team is nice indeed. Beginning with its title, this very beginning reader employs a controlled, rhyming text to tell the story of mice who strap on ice skates and joyfully glide across the ice. Bright, colorful cut-paper and digital illustrations adopt a perspective that enables readers to see the increasingly intricate tracings left on the ice by the skates. Then, three successive pages read, "Someone is waiting. / What is this? / What is that?" and careful readers will see that the marks of the tracings have come together to look like the outline of a cat's face. Rather inexplicably, the page turn then reveals a cat in full color, accompanied by the words, "That is a cat." Ensuing pages show the cat merrily skating along with the mice, who don't seem to be the least bit afraid. "The cat with a hat skates with mice on ice. / Nice!" read the concluding lines, putting a cheery, if not particularly exciting, end to the book. An accessible, inviting title for brand new readers. (Picture book/early reader. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews