Review: A lot of the Pages Seem to Have Gotten Lost, There's Not Much of a Story Here
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2012
Maggie Mouse Gets Lost is just ten pages of granted really high quality computer animation stills, but with just a line or two on each page is very short, even for a picture book.  A bit more substance to the story which is basically a mouse can't see her mother back in a clearing when she's standing in long grass, so yells out to the mother and stays where she is until the mum finds her would have added to the value for money factor.  As I said the illustrations are good though and since some of the frames are just copies of the previous with a slight variation such as from page one to two the lady bug moves further up the flower while the mouse turns away from the camera looks up and cries this is a good way to teach kids how animation works.  You could even do one of those get a heap of bits of paper and draw a stick man on each in slightly different arm or leg angles moving activities with your kid who has been inspired by this.I don't know maybe Maggie could have had some imaginative fantasy thoughts about what she was going to do with her mother  that night after she finds her, or recreates a nursery rhyme in her head, talks to the flowers and bugs asking about their lives or something, well anything.  The story just needed something to pad it out.  It could still deliver the stay where you are if you get lost lesson with a bit more substance.