If You Take a Mouse to School (If You Give...)

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   ネズミときたら、まったく油断もすきもあったものではない。ベストセラー絵本『If You Give a Mouse a Cookie』と『If You Take a Mouse to the Movies』の著者ローラ・ジョフィ･ニューメロフとフェリシア･ボンドがおくる『If You Take a Mouse to School』は、ネズミを学校につれて行く物語。

   想像できると思うが、学校にネズミをつれて行くと、大変なことになる。まずネズミは、子どもたちのランチボックスに目をつけ、サンドイッチを欲しがり、きっとお菓子までねだる。それだけでは、満足できるはずがない。そのうちに算数の授業にもぐりこみ、サッカーの試合にまで参加することになるだろう。

   教室の中にいるネズミのイラストはとっても愉快だ。黒板の角にぶらさがり、（ちょっと適当に）「precocious（おませさん）」や「adrenaline（アドレナリン）」のスペルをつづってみたり、「おやすみ、ネズミ」という作文を書いたり、バックパックの口にちょこんと座ってヨーヨーで遊んでいる姿には、大人も子どもも思わず声をだして笑ってしまうことだろう。

   前作『If You Give a Pig a Pancake』に登場したif節（因果関係の文）の文章に比べると、本書は、いくらかユーモラスで突拍子のないエピソードが続く。しかし、この陽気な「声に出して読む本」のシリーズが大好きな子どもたちは、ページをめくるごとに声をあげて笑い、教室の中にネズミを探しにいくことだろう。（Karin Snelson, Amazon.com）

Product Description

If you take a mouse to school, he'll ask you for your lunch box. When you give him your lunch box, he'll want a sandwich to go in it. Then he'll need a notebook and some pencils. He'll probably want to share your backpack, too . . .

The famous mouse from the New York Times #1 best-seller If You Take a Mouse to the Movies and If You give a Mouse a Cookie is back for his first day of school. Only Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond could make school this much fun!

Amazon.com Review

Ah, mice. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Laura Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond, creators of the bestselling picture books If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, are back with If You Take a Mouse to School. As you might imagine, there are great risks in bringing your mouse to school. For starters, he'll ask you for your lunchbox. And then a sandwich. And a snack for later. Still not satisfied, he'll want to participate in everything from math to soccer. Children and adults alike will revel in the hilarious, very cute illustrations of the mouse in the classroom: hanging from the top corner of the blackboard to spell (aptly enough) "precocious" and "adrenaline," writing "'Goodnight Mouse' by Mouse," sitting inside the boy's open backpack playing with a yo-yo, etc. This book is more episodic in nature than the truly cause-and-effect formula of the previous books: "If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want some syrup to go with it." Nonetheless, kids who know and love this rollicking read-aloud series will laugh and play to see a mouse at school. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson