I'm NOT A Mouse!

by Evgenia Golubeva, Evgenia Golubeva (Illustrator)

Overview

Olivia really doesn’t like her nickname – mostly because it gets her into some sticky situations! How can she persuade her mom to stop using it? A hilarious look at the affectionate names we give the ones we love, with an interesting angle on identity and self-assurance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786284648
Publisher:	Child's Play-International
Publication date:	06/15/2020
Series:	Child's Play Library
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.88(w) x 9.88(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Evgenia is an award-winning animation director, illustrator and writer. She writes for Disney, Nick Jr and the BBC. Her animated short films for children have received a number of awards at film festivals, including a UNICEF award. She loves traveling and speaks six languages. She lives in Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK with her husband, bilingual daughter and their sausage dog Astra.

Evgenia is an award-winning animation director, illustrator and writer. She writes for Disney, Nick Jr and the BBC. Her animated short films for children have received a number of awards at film festivals, including a UNICEF award. She loves traveling and speaks six languages. She lives in Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK with her husband, bilingual daughter and their sausage dog Astra.

Editorial Reviews

2020-03-15
For all those kids who are tired of the nicknames their families give them.

A young, black, bespectacled child with hair in two big curly puffballs tells readers, “I love my mom”—but not Mom’s nickname for the child: Mouse. Whenever Mom uses that nickname, the kid transforms. Suddenly, this backpack-wearing child becomes a purple mouse, wearing miniature glasses and clothes but lugging a yellow backpack that hasn’t shrunk. The protagonist then recalls all of the instances when Mom has interrupted play and activities by inconveniently changing her offspring into this purple rodent—which sometimes puts the child in treacherous, life-threatening situations, such as when Mom causes a transformation in front of the family’s orange cat. Frustrated, the child finally screams, “I’m not a MOUSE,” and then ignores Mom until she uses the child’s given name: Olivia. The rebellion works, but Olivia soon realizes that plenty of other kids—even grown kids—deal with the same problem. Golubeva’s bold, colorful illustrations effectively capture both Olivia’s conundrum and the child’s frustration with Mom’s annoying habit. A double-page spread in a city park reveals diverse children and nickname-granting caregivers, the kids all amusingly transformed. Frontmatter pages feature Mouse in many different situations, and corresponding backmatter pages add further humor by showing all the other things nicknames have transformed kids into, some non-English languages adding further diversity.

This entertaining, ebulliently illustrated story will make grown-ups pause before nicknaming somebody without their approval. (Picture book. 4-8 )

Kirkus Reviews