Stuart Hides Out (I Can Read!) - Softcover

Hill, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064443019 ISBN 13: 9780064443012

Publisher: HarperColl, 2001

Synopsis

Let's play hide-and-seek!

If you were a mouse, would you play hide-and-seek with a cat? Stuart Littler does! But when Stuart hides too well, will cat find him -- before it's too late?

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Hill has written two other stories about Ruby Raccoon: Ruby Bakes a Cake and Ruby Paints a Picture. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two daughters.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 2-These two beginning readers are based on incidents from the movie Stuart Little, which took its name from the book, but basically that's all. In one story, the little mouse climbs into a vase while hiding from a cat, but then needs the help of the feline to get free. In the second book, Stuart has an adventure with a large fish and a turtle while piloting a toy boat across a park lake. Both are in an accessible, easy-reader format with large type and colorful pictures based on the movie, but they are a poor relation to E. B. White's famous Stuart Little (HarperCollins, 1945). Neither "adventure" is from the original book, so why steal the stars? It is blatant commercialism to take a famous character and a few familiar details (the names of the boat and the cat) and put them in watered-down scenarios. These offerings are a disservice to children's literature and to its readers.
Nancy A. Gifford, Schenectady County Public Library, NY
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperColl
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0064443019
• ISBN 13: 9780064443012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Halverson Lydia