Time for School, Mouse!

If You Give...

by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illustrator)

Join Mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he hunts for his homework in this comic getting-ready-for-school adventure! In this board book, Mouse searches high and low for his homework, finding lots of other things in the process. Time for School, Mouse! teaches kids new words while celebrating the fun of going to school! This board book with sturdy pages is perfect for preschoolers who are not yet ready for Mouse's hardcover picture book adventures.

Genres: School, Picture Books, Childrens, Back To School, Fiction, Animals, Kids

24 pages, Board Book

First published July 1, 2008

About the author

Laura Joffe Numeroff is the NYT best-selling author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, What Mommies/Daddies Do Best and Raising a Hero. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Pratt Institute. Laura grew up as the youngest of three girls, surrounded by art, music, and books. An avid animal lover, Laura has always wanted to write a book about service dogs. She now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

[Jessica Walsh-Frazier]

Aaa

[Jocelin · Rating 4 out of 5]

As always little mouse is as cute and frisky as ever. Enjoyed seeing his little antics as he prepared for his school day. More zany shenanigans for our favorite cookie gobbling mouse.

[Stephanie (Reading is Better With Cupcakes) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review to come!

[Arely Garcia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Time for School, Mouse is an entertaining book that will capture the attention of children around the age range of two through five. This book would still be a great book to read in a classroom to kindergartens. The book is about a mouse that misplaced his homework is searching for it before he has to leave for school. He searches all of his belongings until he finds it right before he has to head out the door. Many lessons could be taught through this short children's book. The main lesson that could be pulled and taught in class could be to always be prepared for school ahead of time. That way you won't find yourself rushing around like Mouse was.

[Kristina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is super cute in the way that the mouse gets ready for school. We pull this book in our room when we have a student that is struggling coming to school. We never make our students read a book but we sometimes use it for our circle time.

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laura Numeroff did not let me down on this one. Story is so cute and the illustrations are great. Perfect for any young child going to daycare or to school.

[Lee Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

The "If You Give..." series is another favorite of mine. I didn't know there were spin-offs featuring the beloved characters in other scenarios! 5/5 stars for this one.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed all the illustrations but some pages didn't have enough on them. Cute story as always with this author!

[Lacey Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun little book for kids whom love shenanigans!

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unlike the other Mouse books, this is a board book. I really enjoyed it.

[Alicia Evans · Rating 2 out of 5]

For: Mouse/school fans; readers looking for a playful book.

Possible red flags: readers may find it too simple or removed from the other Mouse books.

[Rainbow Room TOL]

2 copies

[Gabs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it

[Savani · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn’t care for this one. Especially that homework.

[Adriana Bargo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun play on the classic If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

[Charlie Stubbs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great grandson loves this series.

[Lucas · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Five stars, I want to read it again. I liked when he dumped his whole backpack out and so many things are in it. I love mousey and his surprise face. I loved the whole book. 🐭” - Lucas

[Child960801]

A sweet little story about the mouse from "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" series, where he is getting ready to go to school.

[Mary · Rating 2 out of 5]

A distracted Mouse has trouble finding his homework. Not much of a story, but it does provide an opportunity for discussing the best way to get ready for school.

[Danielle Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Time for School, Mouse!" by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond,is an early reader in which school aged learn the routine of their favorite mouse as he goes off to school. At the start of the book, Mouse makes sure that he has all of his school supplies but at the end of the book, he finds out he's still missing one thing!
"Time for School, Mouse!" is a short 11 page book that contains short sentences for children to understand. Since the illustrations and texts in the book have a white background, the illustrations and text, themselves, stand out more to the reader.
Although the main character is a mouse, it made me entirely too excited to go to school! As a reader, I reread the book twice because I wanted to read the text first and then view the pictures to get a better understanding of the book.I highly recommend "Time for School, Mouse!" for an early reader because it gets straight to the point and keeps the readers' attention.

[Jennifer Wardrip · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reviewed by Me for Kids @ TeensReadToo.com

Lovable, adorable, not-quite-organized Mouse, from IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE, is back in this fun board book that's perfect for toddlers and pre-schoolers.

It's time for school, but Mouse is definitely not ready. He can't find his notebook, his pencils, or his homework. It's time to search, and Mouse sure finds a lot of things - his crayons, his doctor's kit, his cookies.

But it's time to leave, and there's still no homework in sight!

Young children will delight in the further adventures of Mouse, and this would even be a quick, easy story for beginning readers.

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Browsing books to give my friends' children as gifts since I won't gift anything I haven't first read myself.

Mouse is at it again. The board books for this series are a bit less involved, but Mouse still steals the show. He's supposed to be getting ready for school but finds himself repeatedly distracted. We've all been there, big and small! I thought this was a great take on getting ready for school and will be adding it to the gift list, particularly because it feels quite relatable.

[Tiffany · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ellie is enjoying the mouse books right now. This shorter Mouse books gives her a chance to "read" a lot of the content. It's fairly repetitive and the pictures give good clues so she learned this one pretty quick. Her favorite page is when Mouse dumps his backpack upside down and there is a whole pile of things that comes out. She likes to find the eggs and the bottle of ketchup each time we look at the picture!

[Sandy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good. Not my favorite, but nothing wrong with it either.

*Edited to say: My one year old loves this book. She chooses it to read over and over again. It helps that there's a school bus in the book as she loves anything car related. she also tells me that Mouse's new lunch box is also a car. She doesn't believe me when I tell her that it isn't.

[Marga · Rating 3 out of 5]

My students absolutely love this though I did not as much. I think its just the thought of seeing a mouse/rat in school terrifies me. And having the "main" character as a mouse was a bit hard to explain to my toddler class. I kept getting questions like "teacher do all mouse go to school?", "does mouse go to school with us?", "teacher, where is mouse in the classroom?", etc.

[Joanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

We read this together this morning. I enjoyed the pictures. I will bring this out again when Salo starts pre-school.

6/17 Salo has read this everyday -multiple times- for the last couple months. He loves it!

[Elisa Pereyra-Molina · Rating 1 out of 5]

This a book designed for babies and toddlers. The main character of the book is a mouse who is totally unorganized! The pages are filled lots of chaotic activity, it would be difficult for a young child to decipher objects in the pictures.

[Samantha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mouse is packing his backpack for school but can't find his homework. He looks high and low, but gets distracted by all of his toys and games. In the end, his homework is the very last place that he looks (his backpack).

A good board book for back-to-school season. Toddlers and PreK.

[Terra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Missing all of the charm of the "If you give a . . ." books.

[Katy Brandes · Rating 2 out of 5]

Same old mouse, so don't expect any more.