Product Description

Two classic stories by Arnold Lobel!

Mouse Tales: "Papa, please tell us a tale."

When Papa's seven little mouse boys ask for a bedtime story, Papa does even better than that -- he tells seven stories, one for each boy!

Mouse Soup: Mouse is in a jam -- soon he'll be weasel soup!

Weasel is ready for his dinner. And poor mouse is it. Just in time, he thinks up a clever and entertaining way to distract weasel from serving up mouse soup for supper.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10938 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03
• Released on: 2004-03-30
• Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Audio CD

Features

• ISBN13: 9780060743895
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
During his distinguished career Arnold Lobel wrote and/or illustrated over 70 books for children. To his illustrating credit, he had a Caldecott Medal book -- Fables (1981) -- and two Caldecott Honor Books-his own Frog and Toad are Friends (1971) and Hildilid's Night by Cheli Duran Ryan (1972). To his writing credit, he had a Newbery Honor Book -- Frog and Toad Together (1973). But to his greatest credit, he had a following of literally millions of young children with whom he shared the warmth and humor of his unpretentious vision of life.

Though he was a born storyteller -- he began making up stories extemporaneously to entertain his fellow second-graders in Schenectady, New York, where he grew up in the care of his grandparents. Mr. Lobel called himself a "lucky amateur" in terms of his writing. Viewing himself as a professionally trained illustrator (he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute), he said, "I know how to draw pictures. With writing, I don't really know what I'm doing. It's very intuitive."

In addition to the Frog and Toad books, Owl at Home, Mouse Tales, The Book of Pigericks, and many other popular books he created, Mr. Lobel also illustrated other writers' texts that captured his fancy. He viewed this as "something different and challenging." Often his illustrations for those books showed a different aspect of his personality and his artistic expertise, ranging from his meticulous dinosaurs in Dinosaur Time by Peggy Parish to his chilling pen-and-ink drawings in Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep by Jack Prelutsky, about which Booklist wrote, "Young readers will be amazed that the gentle Lobel of Frog and Toad fame can be so comfortably diabolic."

In 1977 Mr. Lobel and his wife, Anita, a distinguished children's book author and artist in her own right, collaborated on their first book, How the Rooster Saved the Day, chosen by School Library Journal as one of the Best Books of the Year, 1977. They then collaborated on three more books, A Treeful of Pigs, a 1979 ALA Notable Book; On Market Street, a 1982 Caldecott Honor Book; and The Rose in My Garden, a 1984 Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book.

Arnold Lobel died in 1987.

From AudioFile
This production, great for younger listeners and new readers, includes two Lobel favorites--MOUSE TALES and MOUSE SOUP. In the first, Papa mouse tells his little mice seven stories (one for each mouse) in exchange for their promise to go to sleep when he's done. In the second, Mouse must talk his way out of becoming weasel soup. Both stories, for beginning readers, are read by author-illustrator Lobel, who does a wonderful job bringing their light and quirky humor to life. Listeners will enjoy his fatherly voice as he strolls through these simple but pleasing tales. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Customer Reviews

The Mouse Tales CD Audio Collection
I purchased this set for my grand daughter (3 1/2 yrs old)as she loves to listen to books on tape etc. However, do not make the mistake that I did -- this is a CD only so you need to purchase the books separately. She loves the tales and follows along in the book - the author is the narrator and has a wonderfully expressive voice.

author reads stories
On this cd, the author, Arnold Lobel, reads his own stories. He provides different voices for each character and you can get the intended emphasis for each line. It was fun to listen to, but I still prefer to read it aloud to children myself. It's fun to do the voices too.

Great
Just what I was looking for. Well-told, simple stories for my littles to listen to at nap time.