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  • Mice and Beans

Mice and Beans

Illustrator
Joe Cepeda
Publication Date
February 01, 2005
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Mice and Beans

Description
Rosa Maria tries to cook up a big meal for her child's birthday party, but things keep disappearing from her kitchen. Could it be mice?
Publication date
February 01, 2005
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780439701365
Lexile Measure
620
Guided Reading Level
N
Publisher
Scholastic Press
BISAC categories
JUV002180 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, etc.
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
Library of Congress categories
Mice
Grandmothers
Mexico
Parties
Birthdays
GrandmothersvJuvenile fiction
BirthdaysvJuvenile fiction
PartiesvJuvenile fiction

Publishers Weekly

Muoz's (Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride) rollicking birthday tale stars one Spanish-speaking grandmother, one very long list of party preparations and a band of enterprising mice. Rosa Maria spends all week getting ready for her seven-year-old granddaughter's birthday party, and each day items for the party keep disappearing. So do the mousetraps she sets each evening to ensure the celebration isn't ruined by uninvited guests. Cepeda's (What a Truly Cool World) full-bleed, sun-splashed paintings show with gleeful candor the missing objects being spirited away by resourceful rodents. Shots from the tops of cupboards or two inches off the floor show the busy creatures sneaking back and forth past Rosa Maria's feet as she cooks and cleans in her big earrings and flashy high heels. But the mice redeem themselves by remembering to fill the pi ata with candy when it slips the hostess's mind. The dialogue is rich in Spanish phrases (" Qu boba soy! Silly me"), descriptions of Mexican food and images of a boisterous extended family "Where there's room in the heart, there's room in the house even for a mouse," Rosa Maria concludes. Cepeda wraps up this festive volume by showing how the well-meaning vandals have put their loot to use by throwing a mouse party of their own. Ages 4-7. (Sept.) Copyright 2001 Publishers Weekly Used with permission.
Pam Munoz Ryan
Pam Munoz Ryan is the recipient the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award, the PEN American Center Literary Award, and the 2024 Children's Literature Legacy Award for her body of work. She was the 2018 US nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award. She received a Newbery Honor Medal and the Kirkus Prize for her New York Times bestselling novel, Echo. Her other celebrated novels, Esperanza Rising, The Dreamer, Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi Leon, Paint the Wind, and Mananaland, have received countless accolades, among them the Pura Belpre Award, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and the Americas Award. Her acclaimed picture books include Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride and the Sibert Honor book When Marian Sang, both illustrated by Brian Selznick, Mice and Beans illustrated by Joe Cepeda, and Tony Baloney illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, as well as a beginning reader series featuring Tony Baloney. Ryan lives near San Diego, California, with her family.
Brian Selznick's books have sold millions of copies, garnered countless awards worldwide, and been translated into more than 35 languages. He broke open the novel form with his innovative and genre-defying thematic trilogy, beginning with the Caldecott Medal-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Invention of Hugo Cabret, adapted into Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning movie Hugo. He followed that with the #1 New York Times bestseller, Wonderstruck, adapted into the eponymous movie by celebrated filmmaker Todd Haynes, with a screenplay by Selznick, and the New York Times bestseller, The Marvels. Selznick's two most recent books for young people, Baby Monkey, Private Eye, an ALA Notable Book co-written with his husband David Serlin, and Kaleidoscope, a New York Times Notable Children's Book of 2021, were both New York Times bestsellers as well. He also illustrated the 20th anniversary edition covers of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Selznick and Serlin divide their time between Brooklyn, New York and La Jolla, California. Learn more at thebrianselznick.com and mediaroom.scholastic.com/brianselznick.
California Young Reader Medal
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Nominee 2004 - 2004
North Carolina Children's Book Award
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Nominee 2003 - 2003
Monarch Award
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Nominee 2005 - 2005
Black-Eyed Susan Award
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Nominee 2002 - 2003
Virginia Readers Choice Award
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Nominee 2005 - 2005
Texas 2x2 Reading List
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Recommended 2002 - 2002
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