Title:
Nalah Goes to Mad Mouse CityAuthor: Anne Sawyer-Aitch
Publisher: Magic Lantern Press
Pages: 44
Genre: Children’s Picture Book
Format: Paperback
The adventures of Nalah continue! One
day Nalah finds herself bored and lonesome because all of her
imaginary friends have gone away on vacation. But wait – not all.
Mad Tooth, the little mouse who lives in her sock drawer, is still
busy munching away on her knee-highs. When she finds out why Nalah is
sad, she offers to take her down through the sock drawer into a mouse
metropolis. The result is a tale of wild dancing, cousins and mice,
taffy and a sock monster.
“Gorgeously illustrated with a
process I've only seen before in Anne Sawyer-Aitch's 1st book, Nalah
and the Pink Tiger. My 4-year-old particularly enjoyed the x-ray view
of the stilting guard of Mad Mouse City, and was inspired to make
several of her own versions of the illustration. Another fun story
with a relatable young girl as protagonist and vivid fantastic
characters she encounters.” – E. Bestrom, Good Reads reader
For More Information
- Nalah Goes to Mad Mouse City is available at Amazon.
- Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.
We received this book as part of a blog tour to give an honest review.
I really didn't know what to think about this book because the cover looks different than what I normally see with books. I figured give it a try and see if K would like the book. When we started reading the book, we noticed the pictures and the way they were illustrated and I have to say it was different in a good and unique way.
Nalah is upset because her animal friends left to go on a trip which also leaves her bored. When she makes herself a secret cave so no one will find her (which K thought was really cool and wished for one) she sees she is being watched by Mad Tooth the mouse! Scary right? Well it isn't because Mad Tooth eats her socks! Now I know where all the socks disappear too, Mad Tooth the mouse is eating them! Anyway after talking to Mad Tooth he invites her onto a journey to Mad Mouse City where Nalah gets a parade in her honor. All the mice love her there because of her delicious socks.
She ends up promising the mice taffy but it doesn't go quite as planned. taffy ends up going every where and it is funny to see where the taffy lands, all the while the kids are having fun just being kids.
K really enjoyed the book and his favorite part was where the kids had taffy in their hair and had different hairstyles.
I recommend this book for kids 5 on up. The illustrations are bright and colorful so they draw you in and you get some humor within the story.
Anne
Sawyer-Aitch (pronounced like the letter “H”) is a puppeteer and
stilt-walker. When she decided to create her first book, Nalah
and the Pink Tiger, she began
experimenting with different styles of illustration, and finally
discovered a technique that uses her skills as a maker of color
shadow puppets. She calls it “Illuminated Illustration”, and it
involves cut-away designs, layering, and backlighting. In her
capacity as a puppeteer, Anne creates puppet pieces of all kinds:
parade floats, giant stilt puppets, and intricate color shadow shows.
She is a MN State Arts Board Roster Artist, teaching puppetry all
over the state, and has been touring around with her first book &
her Nalah and the Pink Tiger show
for the last two years. Nalah
Goes to Mad Mouse City is
her second book. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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