Mice Twice

Title: Mice Twice
Author: Joseph Low
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780689878329

Nathalie’s Review (at age 8)

One day Cat invites Mouse for tea, but actually he wants to eat her.  Mouse says she will go and will bring a friend.  So Cat thinks, “Mice Twice.”  But Mouse brings Dog so Cat can’t eat Mouse.  And the next day, Cat brings Wolf to Dog’s house, hoping to eat both Dog and Mouse but beside Dog was Crocodile.

While I was reading this book for the first time, I thought, “Poor Mouse.”  But then when I figured out that Cat didn’t have a chance to eat Mouse, then I was happy again.  🙂  I found the book both funny and a bit scary because I thought that some animals would be eaten up.  But when I first saw this book, I didn’t see Mouse in the tree, so I thought it had to be a boy mouse, but it turned out to be a girl.  I found the end very funny.

Mummy Angie’s Review

A cute little book about Mouse outwitting Cat, and an easy introduction to the math concept of doubling.  Cat thinks he is going to have both Mouse and her friend for tea, so MICE TWICE.  But then Dog appears and he is TWICE as big as Cat.  In retaliation, Cat brings Wolf to Dog’s house, and Wolf is TWICE as big as Dog but FOUR TIMES as fierce.  Also references to time.  The animals agree to meet at 6 o’clock, 7 o’clock and 8 o’clock.