Valentine Mice! (Green Light Readers Level 1)

This book is a good example of fantasy because mice do not really make Valentines and give them out to their animal friends. The artwork in this book looks like it was done with watercolor and ink. One of the elements of style that I noticed several times in this book was onomatopoeia. Some

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examples of this were the words, "swoosh", "plop", "zip", and "nip".

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This is a very quick read and a great way to share the message of Valentine's day with four or five year olds. The mice bring Valentines to everyone in the neighborhood.

Four mice are in charge of delivering valentines to all the woodland creatures. Along the way, one of the mice goes missing! Can the other three find him?

This is a fun book to share with young readers (preschool-first grade would probably be best), even if it only touches on Valentine's Day

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slightly. There's a lot of energy on every page, with illustrations of the feisty mice and short, quick sentences that come at a rapid pace. Many of these simply use a single verb - throw, hop, slide, glide - so that you can turn the reading of this book into a movement activity as well, provided that you have an audience of children who can listen well enough to know when to stop wiggling and return to the text. Even if you don't do that, the energy of the book is bound to come up as you read the text in an excited voice, making this a good book for those less attentive listeners.

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