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The Mouse Bride: A Chinese Folktale
A mouse goes to the sun, cloud, wind, and wall in search of the strongest husband for his daughter, only to find him among his own kind.
- GenresChinaChildrensFolk Tales
32 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1992
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September 3, 2013
★★★The Mouse Bride:A Chinese Folktale by Monica Chang
This was an odd little story. It's about a mouse whose dad is trying to marry her off to the best husband. The ceremony he plans, is destroyed, and his daughter is missing. No he needs to find his daughter and her future husband.
Not sure why, but our school has discarded this book. It is in great shape. The only reason I can see is there are a few questionable pictures, such as a mouse using the bathroom in the river and a mouse smoking a pipe.
This was an odd little story. It's about a mouse whose dad is trying to marry her off to the best husband. The ceremony he plans, is destroyed, and his daughter is missing. No he needs to find his daughter and her future husband.
Not sure why, but our school has discarded this book. It is in great shape. The only reason I can see is there are a few questionable pictures, such as a mouse using the bathroom in the river and a mouse smoking a pipe.
November 28, 2013
The Mouse Bride is a Chinese folktale retold by a Taiwanese author. A mouse that is a chief of the village sets up a fair traditional game to choose his daughter’s husband. He tries to choose his son-in-law by tossing the ribbon-ball. In this game, whoever catches the ribbon-ball will become his daughter’s husband. However, the ball is caught by a big cat, so the event becomes ruined. That night, the mouse has a nightmare that his daughter is caught by the big cat. Therefore, the mouse starts a journey to look for the strongest husband in the world for his daughter to protect her. He meets the sun, cloud, wind, and a wall. Finally, he finds out that mice are the strongest in the world.
Readers can figure out that absolutely no one is perfect in the world by reading this story. In other words, this story tells the audience that everyone has both their strength and weakness. Thus, we should throw away our assumptions and prejudices when we judge a person or a thing rightly. This story teaches readers that we should evaluate someone’s strength according to the situation. Therefore, if we change our viewpoint, we might see someone’s strength that we did not see before. The Mouse Bride is a picture book with exquisite illustrations. Readers can see an old agricultural community life in China in this book. Furthermore, the sun, cloud, and wind are designed to look like cats, so it will be interesting for children to see those characters. I recommend the book for children whose ages range from four to eight.
Readers can figure out that absolutely no one is perfect in the world by reading this story. In other words, this story tells the audience that everyone has both their strength and weakness. Thus, we should throw away our assumptions and prejudices when we judge a person or a thing rightly. This story teaches readers that we should evaluate someone’s strength according to the situation. Therefore, if we change our viewpoint, we might see someone’s strength that we did not see before. The Mouse Bride is a picture book with exquisite illustrations. Readers can see an old agricultural community life in China in this book. Furthermore, the sun, cloud, and wind are designed to look like cats, so it will be interesting for children to see those characters. I recommend the book for children whose ages range from four to eight.
February 16, 2010
I actually read the one that was english/korean.. but I couldn't read the Korean so... yeah.. it really doesn't matter..:D
August 3, 2011
Wonderful, wonderful illustrations!
March 6, 2013
cute and wonderfully illustrated!
April 27, 2021
A Khmer-English illustrated children’s book about a Chinese mouse in Taiwan. I loved the illustrations even though I really did not like the idea of the men deciding they decide who their daughter has to marry. Sigh. Why are so many folktales so inherently misogynist even though they are apparently cute?
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