Little Mouse Gets Ready: Toon Books Level 1 [Hardcover]

There's lots to do before Little Mouse is ready to go visit the barn. Will he master all the intricacies of getting dressed, from snaps and buttons to Velcro and tail holes? Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Smith and his determined Little Mouse reveal all the smallest pleasures of this daily task.

When Jeff Smith was growing up in a small town in Ohio, he loved cartooning, but he never imagined all the places comics would take him. With the help of his wife, Vijaya, Jeff created, published, and sold his comic book BONE. Jeff hadn’t created BONE specifically for kids, but his fantastic tale of three cousins lost in a strange land appealed to all readers, including children, and it went on to sell millions of copies. BONE won multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards, and TIME called it one of the ten greatest graphic novels of all time. In 2008, Jeff’s work was the subject of a major museum exhibit at the Wexner Center Galleries in Columbus, Ohio. His other books include Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil and RASL. This is his first book created just for younger readers.

Before Little Mouse is ready to go visit the barn he must master the intricacies of getting dressed.

- ALA Geisel Honor Book by famed cartoonist Jeff Smith, author of Bone.
- Doubles as a read aloud book with toddlers and a book young children can begin to read on their own.
- The perfect addition to Animal Stories classroom library collections for Grades K-2 and for Personal Care collections for Pre-K.
- Accompanying TOON into Reading CCSS-Aligned Lesson Plan and Activity Sheet (free download)