Pop-Up Surprise - Big Cheese

by Golden Books

A combination of die-cut and pop-up illustrations feature a little mouse who devours a chunk of cheese, making the pages of the book get smaller and smaller until only crumbs and a very big mouse are left.

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307144070
• ISBN13: 9780307144072
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Golden Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 1 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A mouse eats a cheese which gets smaller until BIG BIG MOUSE

This is an excellent book which quickly became a library favorite for my daughter. A mouse finds a big cheese and eats it all up. The first five pages are odd-shaped and resemble a cheese. As the mouse eats the cheese, bite marks appear and the pages get smaller until there are only crumbs. The next page is full size hiding the surprise pop-up ending. The pop-up is very well done. It jumps out of the book and is larger that the page size emphasizing the difference in mouse sizes. Several things appeal to me as a parent. The metaphor 'eat up and get big' is expressed humorously. The various words used to describe eating change on each page. The odd-shaped pages are easy for little fingers to find, turn and resist sticking together. And Big and Small are demonstrated but not over-emphasized. This is the first in a four book series including: "The Green Leaf", "The Fuzzy Peach", and "The Silver Dandelion".