Mister Seahorse

In this book, Eric Carle, shows the reader the many ways that a FATHER cares for the eggs after the mother has laid them. Along with fun plastic colored transparencies to add to the fun while reading the book, it is interesting to learn about a father's role in carrying eggs when as human we always

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see he mother carrying the baby. Also, it tells the kind of fish that helps carry the eggs so the child hearing or reading this book can learn names for fish species as well!

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Mr. Seahorse carries the eggs until they are ready to hatch. He observes other fish and how they take care of their eggs.

Age Approriateness: Primary
Genre: Mister Seahorse would be considered a Fantasy becuase the author uses his imagination to create sea characters, the seahorse and other fish, that talk to one another. The story connects to our lives becuase it talks about Fathers and how they take of us growing

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up. This book also talks about how many male fish are the ones that nurture the eggs before they are hatched.

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Another interactive book by Carle, doesn't live up to his other stuff though

I loved this book for its redefinition of our gender roles.

Mister Seahorse is a great story detailing the responsibilities of taking care of his unborn child, as this is also an informative book, it allows people to learn about how some animals have the male take care of the children. I liked how in the story it went from the seahorse to other male fish

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took care of their young.

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Great for grades k-2. Helps students have good character. Illustrations drawn using watercolors. Mister Seahorse and fellow fish fathers who care for their soon-to-be-hatched offspring, share their stories while pages reveal camouflaged creatures who bear witness to the conversation between fathers.

This picture book revolves around a father seahorse that is nesting the eggs his wife laid in a pouch on his belly. Mister Seahorse travels around the ocean and meets other male fish that are also protecting their wife’s eggs in different, weird (but scientifically accurate!) ways. At the end,

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the seahorses hatch and Mister Seahorse tells them it is time for them to be on their own now. The illustrations in this book are bright and fun, and many pages contain an extra see-through painted page to add a multiple dimension to the story.

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This is a story about a boy sea hourse that has to carrie his mates eggs. he takes good care of them and while he is floating around he meets other sea creatures that carry their female mate's eggs.

Mrs Seahorse gives her eggs to mister seahorse's pouch. He tracels around and sees other fish int he ocean travelign around with their wife's eggs. Then he sees a fish who has a family of children around him. Each time mister seahorse communicates to the fishes n the ocean. At the end, finally the

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seahorse of children come out of his puch

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This book is great for math and science. Mister Seahorse goes around to all the other fathers and they discover that each father is taking care of the fish eggs.

This is a great educational story about a seahorse who takes care of his wife's eggs until they hatch. Great way to teach kids about sea life, and the characteristics of seahorses and their "parenting".

Classic Carle artwork and a funny little story of paternal child-rearing in the aquatic world.

Mister Seahorse is a great representation of a fathers devotion to his children. With fact based information, this story shows children how fathers are meant to care and love their children! It is a great way for children to realize the role of a father and how their father should treat them! It is

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a fun and colorful read!

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This is a classic Eric Carle book, in which a personified male seahorse agrees to care for his mate's eggs, he then swims around the ocean, encountering other male fish protecting their eggs. He also swims right by many camouflaged creatures, which Carle makes special with an acetate clear page. At

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the end his sea horse babies hatch and leave.

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Mr. Seahorse is swimming through the ocean seeing many of his friends. All of his friends happen to be different species of male fish who carry the eggs to care for them until they hatch. This is a great book to show that a father's relationship to a child is just as vital in a child's life as the

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mother's relationship. The book can be used in the classroom to teach parent roles, fish species, or personification. The book is fact based which i think is awesome. I loved the transparent pages with different fish hidden behind them. That is a great way to keep children interacting and involved with the book because the teacher can have the students look for the fish before flipping the page.

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Great book to use in an ocean's unit!

This book is about a mother and father seahorse that are ready to have babies. The father seahorse is in charge of taking care of the babies until they hatch. He journeys through the ocean meeting many other father fish that are taking care of their babies until they hatch. The book does a great

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job of displaying how different fish and sea creatures protect their hatchlings differently. The book ends with the babies hatching and one of the seahorses tried to go back inside the father but he explains that he will protect them now that they are outside of the pouch.

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Mister Seahorse is the tale of a seahorse who care for his wife's egg. As Mister Seahorse travels the ocean he encounters countless different sea creature fathers who are also taking care of their unborn children also. Mister Seahorse has Eric Carle's signature artwork but has pages of transparent

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sheets. This is a good book to read to children when introducing underwater life or even maybe a single father family.

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A lovely illustarted story about a male seahorse that carries his young. It is informative in that it tells you how seahorses both male and female contribute to the birth process. A nice message in gender and families.

This story follows a male seahorses' journey while taking care of his young, along the way he meets other male sea creatures who also care for their young.

another of eric carle's beautiful books. this has a colorful array of sea life and shows how sea horses take care of their young as well as other sea fathers caring for their eggs. this would be a great book to use for a lesson about marine life or animal fathers that care for their young instead

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of the mothers.

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Two seahorses lay eggs and have baby seahorses. All animals have different circumstances for mating. When a female seahorse lays eggs, the male seahorse holds them in his pouch until it is time for them to hatch. There are different times of the year when animals and insects can mate. This book

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teaches you the process in which the male seahorse have the babies.

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Personal Response:
Eric Carle's "Mister Seahorse" is one of his most original illustrated children's books of his time. Every other page is covered with textured, trasparencies that accompany and enhance the artwork, giving children more inspiration to read and explore the pages.

Plot Analysis:
Two

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seahorses, Mr. & Mrs. Seahorse, are depicted carrying the eggs of their future children. Mr. Seahorse swims along, meeting other fish that are also carrying the eggs in their mouth. During the swim the under-water world comes to life with the magical illustrations mastered by Eric Carle.

The book also includes a lengthy preface all about sea creatures and Sea horses, specifically.

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