Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse

by Lindsay Barrett George

Book Overview

After long journeys, an inside mouse and an outside mouse each arrive at opposite sides of a window and press their noses up against it to say "Hello!" Did they just meet today? Or do they visit every... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060004665
• ISBN13: 9780060004668
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 11.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

opposites

When trying to get my students to understand what opposites were, I used this story to introduce the idea. We used a 'mouse size' point of view, and the children understood and had great fun with opposites.

Great book

Lots of fun as you watch the inside mouse and outside mouse explore their territories until they come face to face on the opposite sides of the window. A tip for reading this - at the end you can see the whole layout of the inside and outside and it is good to have the child try to identify where the mice had gone on the previous pages which are all close ups. Great book.

Fun for Introducing Directional Terms

I share this book with my three year old to help her learn from the abundance of directional terms found in the story. Directional terms such as up and down are part of early math. The book features beautiful illustrations and can almost be read as two separate stories brought together at the end where the mice meet. For almost the entirety of the story, the tale does not truly flow, but rather the inside mouse mirrors what the outside mouse is doing, only in a different setting. It's lots of fun and truly a unique way of accomplishing many things within one book. We enjoy it.

So Much to Talk About Here!

My son (18mos) LOVES this book and he has learned SO much vocabulary (from spider to mushroom to bat to hose to about every preposition you can think of) from reading it. The 2 mice in the story are very cute and in the end meet at the window (from either side) and say "HELLO!" That is enough to keep my son wanting to read it again and again. If you have a child that enjoys sitting and talking about the pages of a book, this is a great choice and the illustrations are beautiful.

cute story

The main characters in the story are 2 mice. On lives inside and the other outside. Each of them are shown going about their day. They do lots of the same things but encounter different objects in their routines. The book would make a great teaching tool for the concept of compare/contrast This book would be nice to read aloud to kids ages 4-6. There are very few word per page keeping the attention of little ones well.