Secret Valentine (Green Light Readers, Level 3: Mouse and Mole) - Hardcover

Yee, Wong Herbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1328975339 ISBN 13: 9781328975331

Publisher: Clarion Books, 2017

Synopsis

Rosy-cheeked Mouse and shy Mole share their secret valentines and feel butterflies in their bellies in this delightful addition in the award-winning Mouse and Mole series. Wong Herbert Yee creates just the right combination of sweetness, humor, and heart with his words and images for this early reader audience. Readers will be smitten and swooning with this tender and funny book in this artful and accessible series. As an added bonus, learn how to make a valentine to share in the back of the book!

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About the Author

Wong Herbert Yee has written many books for children, including Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends, which received the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award in 2010. This is his seventh book about Mouse and Mole. He lives in Michigan with his family. sites.google.com/site/wongherbertyee

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Valentines Cards
Mouse traced a heart on the frosted windowpane.
   “Valentine’s Day is coming!” she squeaked.
   Just thinking about it warmed Mouse from ear to tail.
   “I’d better make a list of our friends,” she sighed. “Mole is below, waiting to make valentines.”
   Mouse nibbled the end of her pencil.
   “Let me think . . . there’s Brown Rabbit, White Rabbit, and Squirrel,” she wrote.
   “Skunk, Porcupine, and—Turtle, too.” Mouse twirled her tail.
   “It seems I’m forgetting someone?
   Silly me!” she giggled.
   “I left out my best friend!”
   Mouse added Mole to the list.
   She drew a heart next to his name.
   Mouse got a funny feeling inside—like butterflies in her stomach.
   Downstairs, Mole was getting ready to make valentines. Mole rubbed his snout.
   “Let me see . . . We will need paper and pencils, scissors and glue.”
   Mole laid everything out on the table.
   “Valentine’s Day is about love,” he sighed.
   Mole felt his face flush. He was thinking about his neighbor upstairs, Mouse.
   Mole got a funny feeling inside—like butterflies in his stomach.
   Tap-tap-tap.
   A knock on the door made Mole jump. “Come in, Mouse,” he said.“I have been waiting.”

Mouse stepped into Mole’s hole.
   “Are you feeling okay?” she asked. “You look a bit flushed.”
   Mole’s cheeks turned redder still. “I was busy fetching stuff to make valentines,” he explained.
   “So, what’s the plan?” Mouse wondered.
   Mole took a piece of pink paper and folded it in half.
   He drew a curvy line in pencil.
   “That looks like my tail,” giggled Mouse.
   “Do not be silly!” chuckled Mole.
   He cut along the line with scissors.
   Snip, snip, snip!
   “Presto!” Mole unfolded the paper.
   “Why, it’s a heart!” Mouse exclaimed. “You are too clever, Mole!”
   Mole laid the pink sheet on a red one. “Pencil the message here,” he said.
   Mole cut out more heart shapes.
   Mouse thought of things to say. She nibbled the end of her pencil. On one card
   Mouse wrote: BE MINE.
   On another she put: TOO COOL!
   “How many do we need?” Mole asked.
   Mouse peeked at her list. “Six will do.”
   “A half dozen it is!” agreed Mole.
   Mouse squinted at the red paper.
   “These pencil lines are hard to read.”
   Mole handed Mouse a tube of glue.
   “Trace them over with this, Mouse. I will be right back.”
   Mole returned with a jar of silver glitter.
   He sprinkled it all over the red sheet.
   Mole tipped the paper up and gave it a tap-tap-tap. The glitter that didn’t stick to the letters slid off.
   Mouse clapped her paws in delight.
   “You are not only clever, Mole, but artistic as well!”
   Mole blushed a valentine red.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1328975339
• ISBN 13: 9781328975331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48