Genre
Counting books
Subject
Mice

Ten little mice make for home in this countdown picture-book from author Joyce Dunbar and illustrator Maria Majewska. Starting out together in a garden, and moving to various other locales over the course of the day - an underground tunnel, a little pool, the sheep pasture - the mice decide, one by one, to seek their cozy nests. By the time night falls, they are comfortably snoozing...

First published in 1990, Ten Little Mice is the first book I have read from Dunbar, but the third, after Oscar Mouse Finds a Home and A Friend for Oscar Mouse, from Majewska. I tracked it down, as it happens, because I enjoyed her artwork in those other murine tales. She certainly seems to enjoy depicting mice! This one is a cute little tale, with rhythmic text and beautiful illustrations. I particularly enjoyed the way in which the artist made sure to make each mouse figure distinctive. Recommended to fans of Maria Majewska, and to anyone looking for fun, beautifully-illustrated counting books. ( )

This is a counting book. It begins with 10 mice. One by they return to their nest for different reasons until there is one. At the end all ten mice are reunited at the nest.

This book is about ten mice going to different places. In each different place the mice go to, they end up losing one mouse. It ends up with one little mouse in a thunderstorm and he wants to go home. He goes back home and all ten of the mice are together. This is a cute counting book for young children. I would read this to a class of kindergarteners.

Count down from 10.