Walsh's cut-paper collage illustrations have bold colors and just the right simplicity for the storyline.

Mouse Paint is a really good book that does a great job at teaching children about primary and secondary colors but its also very entertaining. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ELLEN STOLL WALSH is the author and illustrator of many award-winning early concept books for young children, including Mouse Paint, Mouse Count, and the Dot and Jabber trilogy.The intense levels of pigmentation used for all the paint bases gives an incredible depth of colour, whichever format you prefer using. As an art teacher, I have read this book to hundreds of kindergartners over the years before teaching primary and secondary color theory. When the mouse jumped in the red paint, I asked the kid to find the word "red", which I knew he could read; he found "blue" and "yellow" without being asked. I think this book did have some positive intentions though, but the way it was portrayed could be troublesome for a young child.

Finally, they wash themselves clean (in the cat's water bowl) and paint the paper with all the available colors -- except for a section of white where they can hide from the cat. The story ends with the three mice cleaning themselves off in the cat’s water dish and painting the paper instead. They washed themselves off to become white again and decided to paint on paper instead to create the newfound colors. This environmentally friendly matt emulsion paint has a unique formulation, perfect for hard-working homes and public places. I like this book because of its simplicity, sometimes there are some concept books who are good teaching a subject but are way to complex so what is good about this book is that it uses white mice as the main focus and then has them dip in and mix paint to make new shades of colors.We've read this one a couple of times and our youngest was very proud that she could read it all by herself.

An engaging story about some mice playing with paints and trying to stay away from a cat at the same time. It could also be used to introduce primary and secondary colors into an art project where students mix there own paint and color in white mice. I liked that it taught her more about colors and that it encouraged interaction between the two of us while we read it. you can have several circles on the paper that have the name of the color written under it and then with the children you can start to fill in the circles with the paint and mix colors to make new shades. I thought this could be confusing because a kindergartner could have a hard time distinguishing who jumped in the puddle and what color they made.I don't like the constant insistence in our media to cast cats as villains in our culture, but I like the way it was just presented as a gentle fact that cats chase mice in this book. The story is about three white mice standing on a white piece of paper camouflaging themselves so that cat won’t see them. There is a misleading introduction at the start of a cat, suggesting that it will present some threat or action which never takes place. Good story to read aloud with children, especially if you can engage them to guess what colors come next. The story is cute, the illustrations are bright and fun and we laughed when we saw that the mice took a bath in the cat's water dish.