One Is A Feast For Mouse: A Thanksgiving Tale (Mouse (Holiday House)) (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
Perfect for Thanksgiving, this warm and humourous picture book gently reminds us to give thanks for the little things. The Thanksgiving feast is over. Leftover turkey and pumpkin pie litter the table. Mouse peeps out of his hidey-hole and spots a small green pea. the perfect feast for one mouse. Yes, one green pea, one red cranberry, one plate of mashed potatoes, and one roasted turkey, that should make a very fine feast for Mouse. But can he get it all back to his hidey-hole? This story has an adorable little mouse who finds a Thanksgiving feast after the humans have eaten, but when he gets greedy, he alerts the cat of the house. The mouse stacks every new food item he finds in a precarious tower of treats and every other page repeats what he finds like the 12 Days of Christmas chorus. In the end, he has to settle for one pea, but he is happy because it is a feast for him. Ebbeler's illustrations are whimsical and fun, portraying multiple perspectives. The paintings are a combination of acrylic paint, pastels, and colored pencils and do a great job of showing shadow, scale, and motion. Two full page spreads near the middle of the story are the highlight of the book--one shows the mouse underneath his tower of food and the other opens to a wide panorama of the cats face with the mouse in the center of the frame.A great book!
What do You think about One Is A Feast For Mouse: A Thanksgiving Tale (Mouse (Holiday House)) (2008)?
A reminder to not let your eyes be bigger than your stomach. Good read for young children.
—Kartika
This is a great holiday book to enjoy or you could use it to sequence the mouse's feast.
—Landie
Cute story with a "Old Lady that Swallowed the SpIder" kind of pattern
—emmibug8
