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Customer Reviews

Are all Maisy books this mundane?

2008-07-21
This is our first Maisy book and I'm not sure we'll be buying any others. Unfortunately for Maisy we bought a Dora book at the same time (Dora Goes to School) and the latter was so much more fun and interesting to our daughter and to us.

The "Maisy" Series Still has Fresh Appeal

2005-02-28
There's no tab pulling or flap lifting in this 1999 Maisy book, but author Lucy Cousins spins a surprisingly exciting tale for Maisy. The story involves Maisy, a yellow bird with a blue hair bow ("Tallulah"), and a large elephant ("Eddie") wearing orange swimming trunks with a blue and white daisy pattern. These three want to take a dip in an inflatable swimming pool on a hot day. However, not only does the inflatable spring a leak, but its not big enough for the two smaller animals when Eddie climbs in. The animals find their way to a happy and satisfying resolution.

Lucy Cousins' illustrations add immensely to her story's appeal. Using rich, vivid colors, she draws her characters wearing toddler clothing--and big smiles. "Maisy's Pool" is 21 pages long. Each of the 10 two-page spreads (there's a one-page biographical piece on Cousins after the story) has large-font, bold text on a white background on the left side, and bright, cheerful gouache pictures on the right. Recommended!

A Hot Day at Maisy's Place

2004-01-10
If you are the parent of a young child, you probably know who Maisy is. She's a mouse with a duck, a squirrel, an elephant, and a crocodile for friends. Why the crocodile isn't trying to eat the others is beyond me, but that's life in Maisy's workd.

Both of my daughters love the Maisy books; there's something about their simple stories and colorful pictures that even appeals to adults. The books are short and easy to read. But, the stories are never obnoxiously simplistic, like so many other books for small children.

It's a hot summer day and Maisy pulls out her pool to cool off. But she runs into a few problems when she finds a leak in the pool and then has her friend Eddie the Elephant decide to sit in it. Will Maisy ever be able to cool off?

Perfect for one-year-olds! 2000-03-27
I've read this book so many times to my 15-month-old, I can recite it from memory! He started going nuts for it around the time he turned one; that's when he wanted a little more of a story line. This book and the other three in the group (Maisy's Bedtime, Maisy Dresses Up, and Maisy Makes Gingerbread) are one step up from the one-picture-and-one-word per page kinds of books for babies, but not so high up that they start having way too much text per page. A typical page in this book is "Maisy and Talullah are feeling hot." Just one or two simple sentences and one wonderful bright Lucy Cousins illustration per page-spread; ten page-spreads total.