Full Mouse, Empty Mouse: A Tale of Food and Feelings

by Brian Boyd (Illustrator)

Two mice, who are siblings, eat either too much or too little in response to their emotions, but find that expressing their feelings to their parents can help them with their eating problems, with information for parents on eating disorders in young children.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

40 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2007

About the author

Brian Boyd (b.1952) is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on literature and evolution. He is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

In 1979, after Boyd completed a PhD at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle , he took up a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Auckland (appointed as lecturer in English in 1980). Also in 1979, Nabokov’s widow, Véra, invited Boyd to catalog her husband's archives, a task which he completed in 1981.

While Nabokov’s Ada: The Place of Consciousness (1985; rev. 2001), was considered as "an instant classic," Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991) have won numerous awards and been translated into seven languages. In 2009 he published On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction, often compared in scope with Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957).

Reviews

[Lisa Vegan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very cute book with a great message about how to deal with feelings in ways other than with food. Story is good for young kids. It’s engaging and it told in rhyme form. In the pages after the story there is a very helpful note to parents and there are also discussion questions that parents can use to help them talk with their kids after reading the story.

When I was reading the story, I was thinking 4 stars, but the information at the end elevates this book to 5 stars.