Red House, Brown Mouse

A Children’s Book Committee Best Board Book of the Year

A bit Each Peach Pear Plum, a bit All the World, this acclaimed read-aloud celebrates colors, counting, and more. Deceptively simple yet packed with delights and now perfectly sized for babies and toddlers, it’s an ideal baby shower or toddler birthday gift.

Red house, blue house, green house, tree house.
See the tiny mouse in her little brown house?

As an adventurous little mouse sets off into the world, she introduces new concepts to the very youngest. From colors and counting to animals and vehicles, this rhyming read-aloud gem is sure to enthrall babies and toddlers, who will delight in the search-and-find element on every spread—the intrepid mouse herself!

• “Wonderful…Delightful” —Kirkus (starred review)
• “Excellent…Perfectly aimed at the very youngest” —The Horn Book (starred review)
  “Appealing…Calls for engagement on multiple levels” —Publishers Weekly
  “Fun…offers multiple opportunities for reader interaction” —SLJ

Author Biography

Jane Godwin is the highly acclaimed, award-winning Australian author of more than twenty-five books for young people, and her work is published all over the world. Jane loves creating picture books and sees their possibilities as endless. She often works in Australian schools and the community, running various literature and writing programs, making books, and encouraging students in their own creative ventures.

Blanca Gómez is an illustrator and designer who started creating illustrations for her mother when she was just a kid. Now her art can be seen around the world. Blanca’s clean, colorful images, filled with playful elegance, are on display at her Etsy shop and in her picture books Besos for Baby, City Moon, and One Family. Blanca lives in Madrid, Spain.