Pip is a mouse. He plays hide-and-seek with a hundred mouse friends. Help him find his friends in the rooms of a circus caravan, a spaceship, a treehouse, a castle, a submarine, and other fun places. The bright, colorful illustrations of this engaging search-and-find picture book will appeal to toddlers and the pre-K set.

It's a fun read. The illustration is nice. The game is simple, fun, and easy to understand.
It also took various interesting place which I believe would entertain kids.

Excellent Counting and Hide-and-Seek

This book was a happy find. First, the drawing and coloring made the pages vivid, but it was still possible to actually find the hidden mice. Second, the ten two-page spreads had interesting and unexpected themes. Finally, the ten sets of count-to-ten allowed for lots of counting fun in addition to the seeking and finding. That pretty much covered the high points for me.

Lots of times these sorts of books are illustrated in a style that makes it very hard to find the missing items. They can be too stylized or too small or just too well disguised. In this book we get a fair shot at finding what we want and the book stays fun throughout.

The choice of scenes is varied. We search a circus caravan, a space ship, a submarine, a surf shack, a mouse hotel, a castle, a dairy farm, a blimp, an igloo, and a tent in the Casbah. That is a pretty jolly, colorful, and rather exotic selection.

We find ten mice at each location, so we count from one to ten over and over, and introduce the idea of one hundred. Again, good counting.

So, when you add in the fact that the mice are reasonably cute and that the whole project is colorful and crisp, this was an all around nice counting and seeking find. (Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

Pip’s Big Hide and Seek Book by Thais Vanderheyden is a colorfully, amusingly illustrated counting story. The hundred little grey mice are hiding everywhere and the reader helps Pip find them. There are all sorts of fun locations, the beach, a castle, a casbah, even a scene with a knitting robot and all vividly drawn. Young readers will enjoy discovering the mice, their silly hiding places, and the other little secrets on each page . Adults reading along will enjoy the cultural references that are stealthily added throughout the pictures. This is a fun read for any youngster and a great counting book.