Английская Википедия:Birthday Mice!

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox book Birthday Mice! is a 2002 children's book written by Bethany Roberts and illustrated by Doug Cushman. Part of the informally marketed Holiday Mice series,[1] it received mixed reviews.

Synopsis

When their son turns two, the holiday-celebrating mouse family of four[2] holds a birthday for him in a forest clearing, set to a cowboy theme.[3][4]

Reception

Reviews for Birthday Mice!, the fifth title with Roberts and Cushman's characters,[5] were mixed. Kirkus Reviews said, "Occasional rhymes and a musical cadence to the text—with its oompah repetition of words—make this a lively performance piece".[3] Conversely, Eileen Sheridan wrote in the School Library Journal: "This is a difficult book to read aloud; the rhyming text doesn't scan, and sometimes the rhymed word doesn't appear until pages later. [Although] Cushman's animals are personable, [the birthday boy's appearance across] four panels [in two instances] is bound to confuse preschoolers, who will see four separate mice.... Not a first purchase."[6] In separate reviews, The Horn Book criticized the "forced rhyming text"[5] and "uneven" rhymes[7] which the "festive watercolors" helped to compensate.[5][7]

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