14 Wood Mice Sweet Potato

Autumn in the forest is harvest time. Nuts and seeds have already been gathered. Let's go dig sweet potatoes with the charming family of mice from the books of Japanese artist Kazuo Iwamura. It's not an easy task when the sweet potato root is large and hidden deep underground! But anything is possible when the whole family - both young and old - works together. And what a beautiful summer it is all around, and what a delicious sweet potato dinner they had, simply delightful!

"14 Forest Mice" is a very popular series of books in Japan and many European countries about the beauty of everyday life and the lives of three generations of a mouse family: grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, and a dozen more little mice.

Full-scale format, hardcover, enlarged pictures that make it easier to see all the details! The text is specially placed outside the illustrations so as not to interfere with examining every detail.

The plot of this Japanese story strongly resembles an extended version of "The Turnip" with a great deal of description of the surrounding nature. As in "The Turnip," the focus is on the coordinated work of the entire family. And all efforts are rewarded with a delicious and varied dinner.

In the books about the 14 mice, children can easily practice counting to 10, develop their attention to detail, learn to distinguish one mouse from another, practice comparing what happened before and who came from where, and what they were doing previously.

On the endpapers of the book, the main plants present in the illustrations are drawn and labeled. We think you will be interested after reading to immerse yourself and your child in the cognitive world of plants and learn a little more about the lives of animals and insects in the forest, find real sweet potatoes in the store (maybe even cook them) and compare them with wild sweet potatoes.

For preschool and early elementary school age.