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An artist's approach to introducing the alphabet
Mouse airbrushes the A,
buttons the B,
carves the C . . .
Mouse is hard at work constructing each letter of the alphabet. He dyes the D, erases the E, and folds the F. Mouse works his way right through to Z, constructing an alphabet that surpasses even the wildest artistic imagination.
A bright, beautiful concept book from best selling picture book Denise Fleming.
Reviews (2)
Horn Book Review
(Preschool) Martha Stewart, move over. Fleming's exuberant Mouse (Lunch, rev. 1/93) takes on the alphabet-from airbrushing A to zippering Z-with all the craft maven's industriousness and a lot more joyful abandon. Dragging yellow ""caution construction"" tape, Mouse leads the way across the copyright and title pages and gets right to work. Gluing G, measuring M, quilting Q, and welding W, Mouse builds letters on well-designed pages saturated with color. Each page is devoted to one letter and a different activity, and Fleming's lively paper-pulp illustrations are especially well suited to the topic. Mouse's activities will be familiar to the alphabet-book crew, and the combination of household items (icing, pruning shears, vacuum), preschool basics (buttons, glue, a zipper), and construction tools (level, hammer and nails, saw) is aimed perfectly at the audience. Incorporating the concept of planning(with a tip of the hard hat to Ms. Stewart's magazine feature), Mouse's ""Work Schedule and things to do"" calendar appears on the back of the book jacket and shows Mouse's busy month filled with such tasks as picking up a new spatula and going to the paper store. On the book's last page, an exhausted but satisfied Mouse gazes at the calendar, which now has twenty-six work days crossed off, and ""Hurray!!"" written in blue grease pencil after the thirty-first. It's a good thing. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
The little mouse from Fleming's Lunch (1992) literally and alliteratively works his way through the alphabet. The emphasis is on process; rather than introducing appropriate objects for each letter of the alphabet, this cheery offering presents verbs: "Mouse airbrushes the A, / buttons the B, / carves the C, . . . " With the exception of A and Z, which occupy double-page spreads, each letter takes up one page, the happily industrious mouse leveling, measuring, and nailing his way along. Fleming's trademark pulp paintings glow, the brightly colored letters standing out against equally bright and uncluttered backgrounds. The text presents the letters subtly and effectively, making it a good bridge between the very beginning alphabet books and more sophisticated offerings. Most of the lettering is done in an uneven serif font reminiscent of typescript, but the letter being worked on appears in a clean sans-serif font, the lower-case exemplar at the beginning of its appropriate verb and the upper-case as the object. The cleanness of the sans-serif font nicely complements the in-process messiness of the illustrated letters. If some of the verbs stretch the concept (Mouse "judges the J" and, inevitably, "x-rays the X"), others are just plain inspired, as Mouse prunes the topiary P and then vacuums a purple V pattern on a very dirty rug. Here's an alphabet book that's certainly worth making room for. (Picture book. 3-6)
