Mousequerade Ball
A Counting Tale
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Publisher Description
In a castle on a hill, in a great grand hall,
mice are getting ready for the Mousequerade Ball.
They dress in their finest. What a grand affair!
But when an unexpected guest arrives,
the mice get quite a scare.
Is the evening ruined? Should they run in fright?
Or will a gallant mouse stand up and save the splendid night?
Counting up to ten and back again, dancing all the while, this delightful read-to-me eBook invites readers--and dancers--to the event of the season: the Mousequerade Ball!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mortensen (Chicken Lily) and Lewin (the Click, Clack, Moo series) envision a grand ball in a palace, attended entirely by mice until a cat shows up. In gently cadenced rhymes, Mortensen counts up to 10: when it's time for music, "Three fine mice in black-tie suits/ tighten up the strings of their thumb-strum lutes," and the costumed guests that arrive include seven jesters, eight "grand lords," and 10 "splendid ladies." All scurry to hide after the dashingly dressed cat arrives, looking a bit like Puss in Boots, but one mouse wisely realizes he's there to dance, not dine, and the festivities resume. Lewin's loose, breezy watercolors tap into the blend of elegance and comedy in this diverting animal fantasy. Ages 3 6.
