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Summary
It's time for bed, but the little Mouse Baby has no intentions of calling it a night. He hides in the garden, hides in the kitchen, hides his little whiskers anywhere he can. Anything to keep from going to bed. But daddy is right behind him --"Mousebaby mousebaby, where can you be?"-- trying to get this little scamp all tucked in and ready to sleep..
Who will win at this adorable game of hide and squeak? Only time will tail...tell.
Author Notes
Heather Vogel Frederick is the award-winning author of the Mother-Daughter Book Club series, the Pumpkin Falls Mystery series, the Patience Goodspeed books, the Spy Mice series, and Once Upon a Toad . An avid fan of small towns like Pumpkin Falls, Heather and her husband live in New England, close to where Heather grew up. You can learn more about the author and her books at HeatherVogelFrederick.com.
C. F. Payne has illustrated more than a dozen picture books, including the New York Times bestselling Mousetronaut by astronaut Mark Kelly; the Texas Bluebonnet winner Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy , written by Phil Bildner; and the New York Times bestsellers The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber , both by John Lithgow. He teaches at the Columbus College of Art & Design, where he is the chair of the Illustration Department. Payne lives with his wife and children in Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit him online at CFPayne.com.
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-As a father mouse calls his young son inside for bed, the little one decides to make a game of it and seemingly eludes his dad at every turn. Sporting a pince-nez and a tolerant demeanor, the older mouse patiently follows his scampering child and is never far behind. Beautifully rendered illustrations in pen and ink, colored pencils, and acrylics are shown on a variety of spreads, single pages, and small vignettes, which create interest. The mischievous, large-eared mouseling leads his father on a merry adventure beginning outdoors, hiding under plants then slipping through the mouse-door of a large house. The small gray creature, with his large blue eyes and expressive face, has a great time sliding down a leaf, sitting on the minute hand of a large clock, and cannonballing gleefully into a bubble bath. When the father exultantly lifts his child up for a kiss and hug, both mice exhibit much joy at being together again. As baby is tucked in for the night, the two exchange a mutually loving look, reinforcing the strong bond they share.-Maryann H. Owen, Racine Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Payne's (Late for School) elegant, cinematically styled paintings have a visceral, energetic mischief that brings to mind the best Tom and Jerry cartoons. "It's time for bed. It's time for sleep./ No more time for hide-and-squeak," but a mouse baby has other ideas. He leads his bespectacled and clearly willing father on a wild chase through every nook and cranny of the house (yes, the mouse runs up the clock, as well as executes an exhilarating cannonball into the bathtub). Large geometric shapes, subtle but highly evocative texturing, and warm, rich colors anchor Payne's settings, amplifying the baby mouse's inexhaustible energy and giddy transgressiveness, while buoying Frederick's (Babyberry Pie) rock solid, somewhat quaint rhymes ("There's my little rascal,/ hiding in the froth" she writes in the aftermath of the bathtub scene). The spreads are small masterpieces of composition, yet they never feel static; rather, it's as if someone has hit the pause button to briefly allow readers to savor the image's beauty before the story continues on its rollicking way to the bedtime wrap-up. Ages 3-6. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
It's bedtime, and Daddy Mouse is chasing his mischievous son from the garden to the house and into the bathroom. Says Daddy: "It's time for bed. It's time for sleep. / No more time for hide-and-squeak." Large close-up views of the two mice, with the mouse child sometimes running right off the page, draw viewers into the playful rhyme. (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Deft, bouncing rhyme accompanies vibrant illustrations full of energy and charm in this lively twist on a going-to-bed book. It's bedtime for a mouse baby, but he doesn't want to sleepso although Daddy says, "No more time for hide-and-squeak," the games begin. As mouse baby wiggles, dashes, scampers and scurries through the house, it's Daddy who gives chase, following the little one up curtains, around a lamp, over a clock and through bubbles in the bathroom. Mouse baby is finally captured and gets his comeuppancea kiss and a hug. Now it's really time for bed, and this mouse baby may just be too exhausted to refuse. A satisfying good-night book and a celebration of the relationship between father and child, this is hard to resist, particularly because of the joyful depictions of the frolicking mice. In close-up and long shot, isolated against white space or scampering through the human-sized rooms, Payne's micebig-eared, grinning critters outlined crisply in ink and tinted with acrylics and colored pencilsseem ready to jump off the page. A great choice for reluctant sleepers.(Picture book. 2-6)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Warm, funny, and playful, this rhyming story is just right for sharing with toddlers at bedtime or for acting out all day long. Large spreads show a little mouse hiding from bespectacled Daddy mouse, first outside the house behind a big tree and around the garden, then back inside ( Chase him past the sofa / Chase him round the lamp. / Chase him up the curtains / What a plucky little scamp ) until the little rascal scrambles down the hall, splashes into the bathtub, and is finally caught when Daddy swings him high for a kiss / Swings him low for a hug, then tucks him in; time for an end to hide and squeak. In warm shades of brown and red, the mixed-media pictures in ink, acrylics, and colored pencil will have preschoolers pointing at the silly fun as the affectionate adult acts as if he cannot find the kid, and both parent and child know that he is pretending.--Rochman, Hazel Copyright 2010 Booklist