Maisy Big, Maisy Small

Maisy the mouse is already a great favourite with small readers, and through her many books Cousins subtly encourages vocabulary and understanding. This book introduces the concept of opposites and comparisons – of size, temperature, motion, colour and pattern, spatial relationships, emotion, time, number, sound and speech.

Cousins' primary coloured, bold drawings emphasize the difference between the words, and provide a resource for discussion about how we can tell that the facing pages represent opposing concepts.

'Maisy happy' is shown as a large figure shouting for joy in the middle of the page against a multi-coloured background, while 'sad' is a small, glum figure in one corner, on a grey page. Excellent for sharing at home and in early years contexts.