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Make a Difference
Mouse Scouts #2
Sarah Dillard

Knopf / Random House Children's Books
01/05/2016 / ISBN 9780385756037
Children / Fiction / Animals / Life lessons / 7 - 10 Years

Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson

 

Lessons in Creativity and Doing Good!

If you are not a grade school teacher, you may not have thought of using trash as a teaching tool. If you are not an artist with a penchant for collage or sculpture (or your name isn’t Bill Nye the Science Guy), you may not have thought about turning castoff straws into musical instruments, siphons, or hoses.

Violet, Tigerlily and their scouting pals from Sarah Dillard’s Mouse Scouts are back in Mouse Scouts Make a Difference to help parents, kids, and teachers with fun new ideas for ways to make a difference in the world.

This second little book includes ideas for repurposing bottle caps, fast-food containers, water bottles, old mouse pads from Mom’s computer, and—if you’re a mouse—mousetraps used as rowing machines!

This is makes a lovely giftbook for children with parents who want their children to think creatively, compassionately, and universally. It is also a book that may encourage parents and children everywhere to take scouting more seriously. In fact, make the two of them the beginnings of a Mouse Scouts library.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a mother, grandmother and former teacher. She is the author of multi award-winning fiction and poetry and the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books—one series for writers and one for retailers.
Reviewed 2016
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