Children will catch onto the pattern with the authors repetitious words and the coaxing illustrations. I liked that it taught her more about colors and that it encouraged interaction between the two of us while we read it.

I think this book did have some positive intentions though, but the way it was portrayed could be troublesome for a young child. This playful, lucidly-written fantasy about three mice will entertain and amuse young readers while introducing them to a bit of color theory. Mouse Paint is a really good book that does a great job at teaching children about primary and secondary colors but its also very entertaining.

The intense levels of pigmentation used for all the paint bases gives an incredible depth of colour, whichever format you prefer using. Mouse Paint was perfect for this kid, who told me that it is his destiny to be an artist: the pictures are simple, beautiful, and dynamic.

For when in Mouse Paint the three mice start playing with and in the paint jars and become colourful and thus no longer white, the cat is then not shown by Stoll Walsh as suddenly noticing and trying to chase the mice, the cat just seems to totally disappear, leaving kind of an annoying textual thread going nowhere (which does not really bother my inner child all that much but certainly is a bit frustrating to and for my adult reading self). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. As an art teacher, I have read this book to hundreds of kindergartners over the years before teaching primary and secondary color theory. However, albeit that Mouse Paint is to and for me a three star book (as that cat textually not really doing anything except being kind of a placeholder so to speak is certainly more than a bit of an annoyance), well, obtaining and reading the 2010 dual language English/Spanish edition of Mouse Paint, yes, this does make me raise those three stars to a very solidly and appreciated four stars for Mouse Paint / Pintura de raton.Simplicity reigns in Walsh's brief tale, and a feeling of joyful discovery pervades her broad lines and expressive figures.

It is suitable for interior use on newly plastered or previously painted walls and ceilings, for a beautiful, durable finish that is both wipeable and gently washable. It could also be used to introduce primary and secondary colors into an art project where students mix there own paint and color in white mice.

The story is about three white mice standing on a white piece of paper camouflaging themselves so that cat won’t see them. and therefore making Mouse Paint / Pintura de raton a simple and wonderful dual language book (and also a book that in my opinion would also work very well for introducing colours in elementary level Spanish language courses). Good story to read aloud with children, especially if you can engage them to guess what colors come next.

I thought this could be confusing because a kindergartner could have a hard time distinguishing who jumped in the puddle and what color they made. An engaging story about some mice playing with paints and trying to stay away from a cat at the same time. There is a misleading introduction at the start of a cat, suggesting that it will present some threat or action which never takes place. Both parents and children alike will appreciate this lighthearted presentation of a lesson in color. I thought it was a little confusing because the of pictures displayed and the mice jumping in the puddles could be misleading to young kiddos.

They washed themselves off to become white again and decided to paint on paper instead to create the newfound colors. The story is cute, the illustrations are bright and fun and we laughed when we saw that the mice took a bath in the cat's water dish. Walsh's cut-paper collage illustrations have bold colors and just the right simplicity for the storyline. Ellen is the daughter of Joseph Adolphus (a businessman) and Nell (Orum) Stoll; married David Albert Walsh (a professor), August 25, 1964; children: Benjamin Martin. The story ends with the three mice cleaning themselves off in the cat’s water dish and painting the paper instead.