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    Mousequerade Ball: A Counting Tale
    Mousequerade Ball: A Counting Tale
    Mousequerade Ball: A Counting Tale
    Ebook33 pages3 minutes

    Mousequerade Ball: A Counting Tale

    By Lori Mortensen and Betsy Lewin

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    In a castle on a hill, in a great grand hall,
    mice are getting ready for the Mousequerade Ball.
    They dress in their finest. What a grand affair!
    But when an unexpected guest arrives,
    the mice get quite a scare.

    Is the evening ruined? Should they run in fright?
    Or will a gallant mouse stand up and save the splendid night?

    Counting up to ten and back again, dancing all the while, this delightful read-to-me eBook invites readers--and dancers--to the event of the season: the Mousequerade Ball!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateMay 17, 2016
    ISBN9781619639713
    Mousequerade Ball: A Counting Tale
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    Lori Mortensen

    Lori Mortensen is a multi-published children's author who writes fiction and nonfiction on all sorts of subjects. When she's not plunking away at the keyboard, she enjoys making cheesy bread rolls, gardening, and hanging out with her family at their home in northern California. www.lorimortensen.com Twitter: @lorimortensen  

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    • 4/5
      Great rhyme, AND story.
    • 3/5
      A counting story in the pattern of Twelve Days before Christmas. Counts up and then down. Interesting illustrations.
    • 4/5
      Mice get ready for a very fancy party, but everyone goes dashing for cover when a very unexpected guest crashes! Can the Mousequerade Ball withstand a cat's arrival??This was a nice counting book, with more of a storyline than many others. It was a bit unusual in going for a masquerade theme, but it is an enriching read with great vocabulary words for young readers like "puff," "whisk," "grand," and "splendid." I could see this being a good readaloud for preschool or younger elementary classrooms. The illustrations complement the text nicely, and I love that the cat is just there to dance, providing a subtle message about accepting others and not assuming the worst in everyone.

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