There's a Mouse About the House! Hardcover – January 1, 1988

Toddler Friendly Book! 📚🌟This charming, hands-on picture book invites toddlers to guide a little cardboard mouse through a cozy house—moving it through slits on each page, tracing dotted lines, and lifting flaps, all while following its search for 🧀. It's simple in words but rich in engagement: children explore curiosity, patience, and even surprise as the mouse explores each room.

This book was read to each one of my mother's 8 grandchildren by her when they were young children ... When she read to them, she had a way of bringing the book to life. She was so good at inflecting her voice, reading dialog with real emotion and giving each character their own unique voice...Sometimes you could see that the little one listening was so engrossed by the story itself and by her extra touches and enthusiasm .... She could also spend several minutes on one page with only a few words on it as she would point to the illustrations and talk about, ask questions, and spark their imaginations and creativity by doing things like pointing to an unidentified character in the illustration ... Maybe in crowd or classroom full of kids that was drawn ... And say, "let's give him a name..he looks like a George to me... What do you think?".Anyway, with her master story time skills and this book about there being a mouse about the house where kids can thread a separate "mouse" through each page... Well, it was so much fun that it was most always the number one request for grandma to read .... She sometimes made the experience almost too fun as once when I returned from an errand to pick up child she was babysitting, I found them literally rolling on the floor laughing uncontrollably with that book lying open by them on the floor...Apparently they were looking for real mouse in grandma's house ... Oh yea... Also it is good they put a way to replace that darn mouse on newer books because several kids became really attached to that thing. She would let them take home if they promisedto return him to his home in the book and they would remember ...How could they forget ? The book is great and can be a really fun favorite for families... But, be prepared to read it a lot because when it was at grandmas and she ask which book they'd like her to read to them.... With rare exception ... The response was a non-hesitant enthusiastic "The book about the mouse in the house....! Can I hold the mouse this time ?".

This great interactive children's book is a favorite of my grandchildren. I've read it to them do many times, I can recite the entire book by memory.

ordered for my niece bc my grandma read it to me as a child

I LOVE this book and so do my kids. I originally purchased one through Usborne books. It's highly engaging and and great for fine motor and prewriting skills. There's a flat mouse that comes with the book that allows readers to follow his path and journey through his holes throughout the book.Years later I tried to purchase one for a 1st birthday gift for a friend when I discovered it was out of print. I really wanted a unique book so I decided to try a used book.The book came in ok condition - a few rips in some of the mouse holes that the seller repaired. It was missing the mouse, which is the best part about the book, so I was irked. HOWEVER - the back of the book has a picture of the mouse meant for replacement of a mouse gone missing, so it's not difficult to make a new one with a scanner/printer and cardstock. I share this so others can still enjoy the book of the original mouse is missing.

I absolutely love this book. My kids who are now grown adults absolutely loved this book when they were kids. I just bought it for my nephews daughter. It is an interactive book. You get to take the mouse on a journey with you page by page. You actually slip the mouse that comes with the book thru the pages. It is such a fun book. I promise your kids would love it.

This book has been a hit in our family for over 25 years. All of the grandkids have loved it.

The book arrived (supposedly in new condition) and was missing the cutout mouse that moves throughout the book! My daughter was so disappointed.