Library Mouse | Daniel Kirk | Good Book to Inspire Children to Write Their Own Stories     books:     Library Mouse   Library Mouse Daniel Kirk Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image  for more information click here        highly recommended A small creature offers his big voice for aspiring authors everywhere Every child can be a writer?and Library Mouse shows them how! Beloved children?s books author and illustrator Daniel Kirk wonderfully brings to life the story of Sam, a library mouse. Sam?s home was in a little hole in the wall in the children?s reference books section, and he thought that life was very good indeed. For Sam loved to read. He read picture books and chapter books, biographies and poetry, and ghost stories and mysteries. Sam read so much that finally one day he decided to write books himself! Sam shared his books with other library visitors by placing them on a bookshelf at night. Until there came the time that people wanted to meet this talented author. Whatever was Sam to do? The joy of reading, writing, and sharing is brought to life in this warmhearted tale.  for more information click here A true favorite! I purchased this book for my two and a half year old son about a month ago. We read this together every weekend. It is so funny because he memorizes the pages and we take turns reading to each other. We shopped at a local flea market last week, one vendor had a stuffed toy mouse and my son looked at me and said, "Is that the Library Mouse?" It was so funny. This is an excellent book that encourages kids to write books of their own. I wish I could show you the ones my son has put together. Good Book to Inspire Children to Write Their Own Stories I work in a public library so am always interested to read fiction geared at any level that is set is one. Library Mouse is one of the better (and there are heaps out there) picture books set in a library. The main difference to the message in this one to most of the others is that it is actually geared towards encouraging the reader to write books rather than the norm library set picture book which focuses on getting kids to read books or explore the library. Library Mouse is quite well written and the illustrations are also very well done although they are a bit strange at times and you do wonder what was going on in the illustrator's (who was also Daniel Kirk the author) mind at the time. For example a kid on page two reading a book with his eyes closed who probably was a ghost or something anyway, or if not the librarian was as she has obviously walked right through him. In fact as the book nears the end quite a few adults and kids walk/crawl around with their eyes closed, some carry stuff or even write books only seeing the back of their eye lids. I guess Daniel Kirk wanted to see what he could get away with, either that or he got sick of and couldn't be bothered drawing any more eyes. The illustrations are good though and lots of fun plus on most pages with humans you also have the opportunity to play a Where's Wally?/Where's Bin Laden? type reading game finding the tiny Sam the mouse hidden on the bookshelves or somewhere else. A very good book Library Mouse is basically the tale of a mouse named Sam who lives behind the children's reference books in a library. Sam really enjoyed reading the books once everyone had gone home and one day decides to write books of his own and place them on the shelves in the library. Soon everyone wants to know who the author of these mysterious books is and a note goes up on the bulletin board asking for him to be a special guest at a meet the author day. Since Sam is a mouse who has lived anonymously in the library for years, can he divulge who the author is? You'll have to read and find out. Two other great books about or set in a library are Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians by Jackie Hopkins and Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen.  for more information click here Awesome Book! My little boy is four and he loves this book. He likes the story and the pictures. The Library Mouse encourages the children in the library to write their own little books. My little boy wanted to do it, too! He wrote his first little book the next day! Charming story and lovely pictures As a daughter of a librarian, I am drawn toward books about libraries and librarians. This charming and sweet story is about a little mouse who lives in a library and starts adding his stories to the children's section. A wonderful way to encourage young children that their words and stories matter. I plan on giving this to a friend who teaches 2nd grade. She is looking forward to sharing it with her students.  for more information click here Nice little story Sam is a library mouse. He spends his days sleeping behind the children's reference books, and his nights reading. His imagination is so stirred that he desires to write books, and soon he does. It is when the children begin to discover and read Sam's books that he inspires them to write as well. I can't make up my mind about this book. While at the outset it is a nice little story that encourages children to write, it almost feels like an agenda book more than a picture book. There isn't much story to it. I can see great benefit to reading it to a room full of writers at a writer's conference. Or a room full of kids at the beginning of a creative writing class. But although my four children will sit through it and seem to like it, I don't see much enthusiasm from them. The read-aloud is smooth and there is nice repetition. The illustrations are colorful and entertaining (although there is one of the mouse that is disturbing to me. My kids don't seem to be bothered by it at all.) There is nothing objectionable about the book, just nothing really remarkable. Armchair Interviews says: Heed the reviewer's comments.  for more information click here reviews: page 1, 2 products you might be interested in search for books library mouse, library, mouse      toavi.com    web randomly chosen VHS: Whitetail Extreme