Can I Come Too? - Softcover

Patten, Brian; Bayley, Nicola

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111 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849397597 ISBN 13: 9781849397599

Publisher: Andersen Press, 2014

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Follow a small mouse's biggest adventure in this gentle, cumulative tale from a world renowned author and artist team.

A very small mouse decided it wanted to have a very big adventure. "I'll go and find the biggest creature in the world," it thought. Along the way it meets many different animals and when at last they find the biggest creature, the little mouse feels a great sense of achievement.

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About the Author:

BRIAN PATTEN is one of the most accessible and popular poets working today. He is the author of the all-time cult classics Gargling With Jelly and Juggling With Gerbils. He is also the editor of the bestselling The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry and The Puffin Book of Modern Children's Verse.

NICOLA BAYLEY has illustrated many acclaimed picture books including The Mousehole Cat (by Antonia Barber), which was chosen as the British Book Awards Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year in 1991. Nicola lives in London.

From School Library Journal:

PreS-K—In this cumulative tale, a very small mouse decides she wants to have an extremely large adventure. "'I'll go and find the biggest creature in the world,'" she thinks. Along the way, the mouse meets many animals that want to join her. Stopping by lakes, rivers, and woods and climbing a mountain and visiting a zoo, they finally arrive at the ocean, and the biggest animal is revealed. The mouse is so delighted to have met all the animals and to have found an answer to her question that she curls up in a ball and falls asleep. Her traveling companions then head back to their homes. The meticulously executed colored-pencil illustrations, whether of feather or fur, ferns or foxgloves, are so exquisite that children will become lost in them. Stunning art, paired with a simple poetic text, pulls readers along as they wonder which animal they will meet next.—Paula Huddy, The Blake School-Highcroft Campus, Wayzata, MN

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