Charlie & Mouse
A teacher’s look at why this book belongs in the Read-to-Me, Read-by-Me stage.
Why it fits Read-to-Me, Read-by-Me (for the kindergarten-ready set, between being read to and reading alone)
Two brothers turn an ordinary day into four tiny funny chapters. It reads like eavesdropping on real siblings. A Geisel Award winner of unusual gentleness.
What makes it special
Snyder captures sibling logic verbatim — the negotiations, the invented ceremonies, the pooled coins for a lumpy thing. Emily Hughes' warm, tumbled illustrations give the brothers' world a lived-in coziness. Four tiny chapters of nothing happening, perfectly — the domestic miniature as a Geisel-winning art form.
From the publisher
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…
About Laurel Snyder
Laurel Snyder is a poet and novelist whose Charlie & Mouse — four tiny chapters of true-to-life brotherhood — won the Geisel Award; her specialty is the epic scale of ordinary childhood days.
Also by this author: Charlie & Mouse & Grumpy · Orphan Island
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