Around the House, The Fox Chased the Mouse: A Prepositional Tale Book

Around the House, the Fox Chased the Mouse is the newest installment in Rick Walton's award-winning language arts series, which has sold over 150,000 copies! This frolicking adventure teaches children about prepositions as it takes them on an adventure with a focused fox and a mischievous mouse!

Around the house The fox chased the mouse, Under the fence, into the barn, out the window, through the chicken coop

Children's Literature

Through a crowded farmyard a fox, wide-mouthed and front legs stretched out into big grabbing hands, chases a cartoon mouse. The farmer's wife drops her broom, the horses watch the speeding mouse and whinny, the chickens flutter in panic, but still the race goes on. The mouse jumps out of the window, runs through the chicken coop and across the field and even up a tree to escape the speedy fox. Children will be rooting for the mouse all the way as they listen to the prepositional tale, but they will be both relieved and delighted by the surprise ending. Illustrated in exaggerated cartoon fashion by Jim Bradshaw, this book will delight youngsters in a story circle and will be an easy read for beginning readers. Nonreaders will enjoy the repetition of the different adjectival phrases and will soon be saying the adjectives along with the reader as the mouse escapes the fox's clutches again and again.