My Lists
Featured Lists
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2012 | Preschool to Grade 4
PreS-Gr 3—Told in a spare 27 words, this visual tale features an inauspicious magpie, a corvid well known for its intelligence and acquisitiveness. The three-part tale can be summarized as "more…less…enough." The magpie and a mouse start with nothing, find a few shiny, cast-off items, and hustle them to their nests. Then suddenly, and not surprisingly, their nests are bursting wit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2012
A downcast magpie with an empty nest ("nothing") cheers up when a friendly mouse offers it a marble ("something"). Now the consumerism runs riot and the magpie collects object after object -- red Lego brick, coin, set of keys, broken necklace, pair of sunglasses -- until it has "lots," "plenty," "much too much." When the tree branch breaks u...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
A friendly mouse helps a magpie out when it begins to collect way too many objects. The spare text makes each of its twenty-sev...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
