Books in Adventures of Mouse series

The Lost Castle (The Adventures of RJ the Mouse) is about friendship, determination, and helping others as RJ and his best friend Snow the Owl follow their treasure map. They learn that not all adventures are about the prize, but the journey there. Their world is full of new people around every corner, but not all the inhabitants are friends, and RJ and Snow find themselves as the ones needing help.

Smithsonian Adventures in Space contains everything young space explorers need to learn about the planets and beyond. After reading about the planets and space exploration through the Smithsonian's collection, kids can use the shaped box to create their own Moon landing scene with dioramas, cardstock models, and figurines. Whether it's Jupiter's moons or Neil Armstrong's space suit, Smithsonian Adventures in Space contains everything kids need for an intergalactic adventure!

Annie Mouse's Route 66 Family Vacation chronicles the Mouse family's first vacation. Join Annie Mouse as she visits relatives, landmarks, and attractions as the family travels Route 66 westward from Illinois to California in an old-fashioned family road trip. This chapter book is a companion book to Annie Mouse's Route 66 Adventure: A Photo Journal and is a great "travel guide within a story" for kids.

A space-themed counting story that ends with a blast! 10, 9, 8--Get ready to blast off with Milo and Mouse! Future space travelers can learn about rockets and how to suit up and push all the right buttons in order to zoom into space--and beyond! For kids who like a countdown, this clever, colorful story employs the theme of getting-ready-to blast-off to help them grasp counting backwards from ten. Cool-for-kids rocket and astronaut items are worked into the simple story and will expand young children's understanding of space travel.

With Animal Adventures: Sharks, kids can go on an amazing journey to encounter the fantastic creatures that prowl the ocean. Animal Adventures: Sharks takes you beneath the ocean’s surface to meet the many sharks that lurk in the depths. Have fun while learning, meet the sharks—large and small, gentle and fierce—through colorful illustrations and fascinating facts, and then build a diorama. Everything you need to explore the ocean is right here. This unique set with a lenticular cover includes a book full of colorful illustrations and intriguing facts about sharks, plus 3-D animal models and a diorama with reusable stickers. Journey to all the world’s oceans to learn everything you need to know about these mysterious creatures. Animal Adventures: Sharks offers a unique learning experience as you meet wild and exotic animals face-to-face!

Join Annie Mouse and her family as they put their cares behind them and go on a Route 66 cross-country trip in this fifth Annie Mouse Adventure. Annie Mouse is excited to share the photographs that document her family's experiences as they follow the route westward from Joliet, IL to Needles, CA. The Mouse Family visits attractions in each of the route's eight states, making friends and learning about the history of the Mother Road along the way. This book can be used as a travel guide while on the route or it can be used as a social studies supplement. This adventure was inspried by the author's many Route 66 trips and features her original photography.

A interactive mystery helps young kids learn to identify six shapes. This charming let's-find-it story, with gatefolds, features two friends on a mission--with a tangle and a twist. Part guessing game, part shape primer, part friendship and novelty story, kids will learn about different shapes in an organic way as a missing ball of string (the circle) gets unraveled, then wrapped back up. Off the page secret going's-on add to the fun of this smart and innovative concept book that never screams "here is a lesson!"

Join Sophie Mouse and her forest friends in Silverlake Forest as they make a new friend, learn to swim at Forget-Me-Not Lake, find an unlucky four-leaf clover, and more! The Adventures of Sophie Mouse is perfect for beginning readers with easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight a division of ABDO.

Who Can Open Michelangelo’s Seven Seals? Thomas Brezina The latest tour through the Museum of Adventures draws young readers into a fast-paced interactive mystery as they try to solve the riddles of Michelangelo’s secret chamber. When the stone dragons on the rooftop of the Museum of Adventures menacingly spring to life, Mr. Tonatelli, the museum director, suspects Michelangelo’s secret chamber has been opened. It’s up to readers to find the chamber’s seven seals in a magical journey that introduces them to the life and culture of sixteenth-century Italy. As the readers explore a quarry of Carrara marble, visit Michelangelo’s studio, and eavesdrop on conversations about the controversial artist, they will need to decipher a variety of clues. This exploration of the Renaissance master’s art is so much fun that young readers won’t even realize they’re learning. Thomas Brezina is the author of numerous internationally bestselling children’s books, including Who Can Crack the the Leonardo da Vinci Code? and Who Will Find Vincent’s Treasury of Colors? (both by Prestel). His more than four hundred books have been translated into 32 languages. He lives in Vienna and London.

Which part of the brain is in charge of creativity? What is the smallest human muscle? Take a trip inside the human body and discover the amazing systems that allow us to move, breathe, and speak. After reading about everything from the digestive tract to the cornea, kids can assemble their own plastic skeleton and view the systems of the body in a layered cardstock model. With 20 fact cards, 2 sticker sheets, and a double-sided poster, this interactive kit is a perfect primer for learning about how the human body works.

Veteran ocean traveler, Boathouse Mouse, is startled to learn that his ship, Wanderer, is heading the wrong direction! He went to sleep believing they were headed for the busy trade port of Constantinople, Turkey, and woke up to find they were going to the frigid waters of …Ride along with Boathouse and his friend as they discover the wonders of Norway!