Mouse's First Christmas

My girlfriend brought this book home as a "pre-christmas" present one year and we both instantly fell in love with it. We don't have children, but we both love the endearing and cute stories. We've read it together many times in the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas every year for the past three years. It's a delightful and playful book, beautifully, magically and touchingly illustrated in acrylics. We can get lost for minutes at a time studying the illustrations on each page. Thompson has created a timeless character that I'm sure people will be reading to their kids for generations to come. Mouse teaches us playfulness, curiousty and wide-eyed wonderment at every little thing that makes life so great. This is the best book of the series, but the others are all fun to read as well. We will keep collecting these as long as she writes them.

My 16 month old loved this board book from the first time I read it to him. He learned to say "mouse" and has fun finding the mouse on each page. The pictures are beautiful and it is more substantial than most board books I have bought. I highly recommend it.

I just purchased three copies of this book for Christmas gifts-- and had the store order two more for me! The story and pictures are charming-- the little mouse dicovering candy canes, cocoa and all the magic of Christmas Eve- Christmas morning! The words are simple enough for a very young child to understand and enjoy; the illustrations are nice enough that you'll keep the book out for the older ones to thumb through!