Charlie & Mouse (Charlie & Mouse Series #1)

by Laurel Snyder, Emily Hughes (Illustrator)

Overview

Four hilarious stories, two inventive brothers, one irresistible story! Join Charlie and Mouse as they talk to lumps, take the neighborhood to a party, sell some rocks, and invent the bedtime banana. With imagination and humor, Laurel Snyder and Emily Hughes paint a lively picture of brotherhood that children will relish in a format perfect for children not quite ready for chapter books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452146409
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	04/11/2017
Series:	Charlie & Mouse Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Laurel Snyder is the author of many books for children. She lives and writes in a small yellow house in Atlanta, Georgia, which she shares with her husband and two sons.
Emily Hughes is an illustrator (and sometimes writer) who lives in windy Brighton, England.

Editorial Reviews

"Filled to the brim with sincere, slice-of-life sibling moments."-The Horn Book Magazine

"Filled to the brim with sincere, slice-of-life sibling moments."-The Horn Book Magazine

"Four ebullient linked stories introduce the two eponymous brothers and their down-to-earth family."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Four ebullient linked stories introduce the two eponymous brothers and their down-to-earth family."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Plenty of repetition, short sentences, and wide spacing provide effective scaffolding for beginning readers."-The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Plenty of repetition, short sentences, and wide spacing provide effective scaffolding for beginning readers."-The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Charlie and Mouse has to be one of our favorites of the entire year, so far. It so easily elicits giggles!"—The Children's Book Review

"Charlie and Mouse has to be one of our favorites of the entire year, so far. It so easily elicits giggles!"—The Children's Book Review

"Delightful" - School Library Connection

"Delightful" - School Library Connection

"You can't get much sweeter than these two irresistible brothers who make their own fun." —Common Sense Media

"You can't get much sweeter than these two irresistible brothers who make their own fun." —Common Sense Media

"Utterly endearing."—Julie Danielson, Kirkus Reviews

Washington Post Best Children's Books of the Year

"Utterly endearing."—Julie Danielson, Kirkus Reviews

"Relatable and endearing with a touch of humor."—Imagination Soup

Honor Book

"Relatable and endearing with a touch of humor."—Imagination Soup

Honor Book

Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year

Washington Post Best Children's Books of the Year

Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year

"A top-notch early reader, with words and art in perfect step."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"A top-notch early reader, with words and art in perfect step."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Read On Wisconsin! State Reading List 2018-2019

Read On Wisconsin! State Reading List 2018-2019

"Sweet and funny."—The Wall Street Journal

"Sweet and funny."—The Wall Street Journal

From the Publisher

★ 2017-02-01
Two brothers create four fine and loopy entertainments to fill their day.At daybreak, "Charlie woke up. There was a lump beside him." (In bed, under the covers, as Hughes' wry artwork relates.) "He poked the lump. The lump moaned." It's Mouse, who moans that he is sleeping. Charlie challenges that. "How can you be sleeping?...You are talking." They get up and go poke the two lumps in their parents' bed. "I am a mom," the lump announces. "I can do what I want." This same spirit informs the following three sagas in this early reader. One is a gathering parade to a neighborhood party, featuring a variety of genders, classes, and races. Mixed-race Charlie and Mouse have a white mom and an Asian dad; Mouse, although he takes the masculine pronoun, wears a pink tutu. Next Charlie and Mouse try to earn some money by selling rocks. Neither the elderly brown lady nor the interracial gay couple are in the market, but they do need rocks removed and will pay for the service. Mom, want it or not, gets a rock garden. Lastly, the boys create a new tradition: a bedtime banana, only to conspire after lights out that a bedtime Popsicle may be better. Snyder serves the stories with propulsive good cheer and a pleasing cadence, keeping the pages flipping, while Hughes' illustrations have crazy-quilt complexity and visual texture. A top-notch early reader, with words and art in perfect step. (Early reader. 6-9)

Kirkus Reviews