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From If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. The entire story is told in second person.A boy gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings).
ALA wrote "Short, original fables with fresh, unexpected morals poke subtle fun at human foibles through the antics of animals. . . . The droll illustrations, with tones blended to luminescent shading, are complete and humorous themselves.", [2] while Kirkus Reviews found "there's not a jot of wit, wisdom, style, or originality in these 20 flat and predictable items.
Mouse Minor/Prince Ludovic - The protagonist, a white mouse who was born in London England. He lives in the Royal Mews next door to Buckingham Palace. Yeomice - The Captain of the Guard of Mouse Minor's father. Aunt Marigold – Mouse Minor's aunt. The Mouse Queen – The Queen of the mice of the United Kingdom. She is Mouse Minor's grandmother.
The Icelandic folktale variant "My Old Woman Must be Paid" features an elf named Kidhus who had a reputation for thievery among the local human population. When he stole a golden ball used by a fisherman's wife as a spindle whorl , her husband demanded that Kidhus give him an object of equal value as compensation (which he granted).
The E. B. White Read Aloud Award was established in 2004 by The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership felt embodied the universal read aloud standards that were created by the work of the author E. B. White. In 2006 the award was expanded into two categories:
The tale is an expansion of Aesop's Fable of The Frog and the Mouse and concerns a mouse that desires to cross a stream. A paddock [a] offers his assistance and, to prove his trustworthiness, discusses the difference between appearing and being virtuous. As the two cross the stream tied together, the paddock betrays and tries to drown the mouse.
Goofy and Donald buy a coin-operated sailboat, which leaves Donald constantly depositing nickels into the slot to keep the sail functioning. Donald loses his temper and breaks the mechanism, stranding him and Goofy in the open ocean. After several days, they try to catch some fish to eat, but are beaten by a seagull.
In all, a fine read-aloud for a hot summer day." [2] A Million Fish has also been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews, [3] School Library Journal, [4] Publishers Weekly, [5]