I really liked all of the illustrations for Edison, but some of the wording was weird. I was under the impression that this was a children's book, so saying things like "When I was young, I also went off on crazy adventures, risking life and limb like an idiot" seemed inappropriate. It wouldn't have taken much to phrase that a little differently.

This is another book that didn't flow well. It was almost like reading an old telegram. Words words words STOP words words STOP words... I felt like I kept having to stop and start again within the story. Some of their mousey comments didn't make sense either.

I liked the idea of mice being just as intelligent and independent as people. It made me think of the movie The Borrowers, but with rodents. They have homes, schools, can weld and invent -- one even went to the moon. It was an interesting story about using your brain to come up with a scientific solution to a problem. Trial and error, drawing out plans, researching, hypothesizing -- all of this was a great way to incorporate science into a children's story.

Wonderful book, although I wish it had been presented and worded just a tad differently.

Originally posted at Do You Dog-ear? on August 9, 2018.

Do you love adventuring? Did you have a favorite adventure tale that you read as a child? For me it was Winnie the Pooh. I am sure you each have your own memory of that special story and how cozy and happy it made you feel.

If my children were young, I would read Edison to them and it would be that favorite adventure book they would carry with them through life.

Edison is an amazing story of a young mouse with more pluck and courage than he knows what to do with. His desire? He wants to find the missing mouse treasure, even if the hunt takes him to the highest mountain or to the bottom of the ocean. And so he goes adventuring. Well, the bottom of the ocean is in his future. But he needs to have a friend to come along with him. Someone who can offer him advice and guidance. That someone is the Professor.

Together, Edison and the Professor embark on the adventure of a lifetime and discover the missing mouse treasure. But before you say, “I know how this story ends,” hold on and read the book. You and your child will be so very pleasantly surprised.

The pictures are amazing, the story is top-notch. Your child will be entertained and delighted and will even learn some physics and explore the world of ocean animals. This would be a perfect present for Christmas, or just a purchase that you can share with your child during storytime at home.

When they find a map to a treasure beneath the sea, the first thing they must to is make something to take them below the sea...

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It takes them some experimenting to come up with a workable unit to go beneath the sea. As they go to look, they find the shipwreck fairly easily. They run across the human treasure but they have to look further for the mouse treasure. You'll never guess what it is...

Edison was a big than life story. Starting with a simple note on a simple piece of paper an adventure ensues with eyes on a prize. The illustrations are magnificent and so detailed, I could have stared at them for hours. I highly recommend Edison as a story to explore the idea that the adventure is often greater than the prize.

Goodreads Rating: 4 stars.

An absolutely adorable and gorgeously illustrated tale about mouse inventors and explorers! Pete is a young mouse who comes to ask the Professor (an instructor at the Mouse University) for help in finding a treasure his ancestor supposedly had. After delving into the historical records, the two mice discover the treasure is buried at the bottom of the sea with a shipwreck. They both must use their scientific process to find out a way to reach the ocean floor and invent and invention that will get them there!

Not only does this cover the trial and error of inventing something, but the reveal of who Pete's ancestor helped out (the mouse helped Thomas Edison invent the lightbulb) adds an additional level of scientific history and education to the story.

The art is incredibly detailed and gorgeously colored, so it catches the eye and engages those of us who are more artsy inclined, and also provides many double page panels of illustrations that help tell the story where words don't. It's the perfect pairing between science, art, and writing!

I have had Kuhlmann's other books on my tbr list for some time now, and I will definitely be checking more of those out soon!!

Edison (The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure) is the first book my grandchildren and I have read by Torben Kuhlmann. It is an amazing find, so that we have already planned to look for the earlier books by this author.

He story-line is wonderful with the older professor mouse mentoring the younger adventurous mouse, Pete. However, it is the exquisite illustrations that draw the eye, then captivities the mind as the reader searches out every little detail. Just excellent!

The children enjoyed the scientific method and plans that the mice used to look for the treasure that had sunk. The tub scene was a favorite of theirs. What a great adventure for us all.

“According to the professor, nothing was impossible for a mouse.”

This book feels like Verne’s masterpiece “Twenty thousand leagues under the sea” to me. It brings me back to my childhood, when my favorite books had a mouse in the cover and I loved reading about Treasures and pirates and adventures. I loved every single page of this artistic book.

The first scene is wonderful, the dream of every reader: a bookshop full of books and paper and ink. There’s something else: a mouse. In this place there is an hidden jem, a university of mouses. Oh, yes. It was so cute.

Our protagonist, Pete, is a little mouse who lost his ancestor during a ship travel. He knows that his ancestor had a treasure with him and so he decides to ask for help to the university professor. They start this journey through the history of science and the seas. But They need to find the ship relic before.

I can think of this book as a introduction about science to young people: the two mouses use the scientific method (try and try and try again) to understand how to go underwater while breathing. They create a Strange “Nautilus” (sorry Verne, I’m stealing your words) and what can be considered a mouse-submarine.

The journey is phenomenal, the arts are wonderful.
I recommend this book to everyone who has children, nephews, little friends, siblings, everyone. Even if you are older you would enjoy this beautiful book. Totally recommend it. Little me would have loved this little masterpiece, it would have become one of my favorites for sure. Well, I loved it anyway.

Torben Kuhlmann is a modern children's book author, but it's his illustrations that capture the imagination. His newest book, Edison: The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure, is another beautiful book.

The story follows Pete, a curious and adventurous mouse, who calls upon an older professor mouse to help him find a treasure which his ancestor lost at sea.  It's is a charming story that had an element of suspense. Would the two mice together be able to accomplish their goal?

As an adult reading this book, there are questions I wanted answered and more of the story I wanted to be told.  I anticipated reading more about the real Edison  and was disappointed that he wasn't included in the story. After all, the title includes him, so shouldn't he be included within the main story?

I had to check myself and remember that I needed to see this  book through a child's eyes. When I did, it was a wonderful book.  Reading about Edison and the lightbulb as it was aptly present at the end of the story made it all that more interesting.

I could easily see this book being used by teachers.  This little mouse, Pete, could be used to introduce a subject that may otherwise bore young children. Imaginative illustrations and a simple story is always a great way to peak interest.

Note: I received a complimentary copy of this book from NorthSouth Books through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

My Personal Rating: 4.2               Star Rating: 4/5

Edison by Torben Kuhlmann follows Pete and the Professor as they decide to search for the missing treasure of Pete's ancestor. Their investigation determines the location of the ship that sank carrying the treasure. Pete decides he is going to find a way to get the treasure. The Professor declines helping until he rescues Pete from nearly drowning trying out ideas for a diving bell. With the Professor's greater wisdom and knowledge, the pair end up designing and building a submersible. When they are final able to retrieve the treasure, it's not at all what they expect, and Pete learns just how talented his ancestor really was. Oh, yeah… and did I mention Pete and the Professor are adorable mice?

This is a gorgeous picture book for advanced elementary age children. There's a substantial amount of text, and more complicated words than younger readers could handle alone. Parts of the story are told through art alone. This is apparently not the first in this 'series’. I really want to get them all in a hardcopy format! The art is simply stunning, and the story is great! At the end, there is a section about Edison, and the history of lighting, some of which was new to me.

***Many thanks to Netgalley and North South Books for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Kuhlmann has me transported to the days I discovered Narnia and Redwall. The story is undeniably clever, and I am just enchanted by this unseen world hidden away in the walls.

Kuhlmann is a great storyteller. I can imagine him spinning these tales to children off the top of his head. The children sitting in awe and wonder as they listen to his stories.

When I read Edison, I was drawn not only by the illustrations but the story itself captures my attention. From the moment a little stranger mouse called Pete ventured to talk to a mouse called Professor I felt my interest pique. Who is this little mouse? What are in these rolled up papers he has so neatly rolled up in his backpack?

Readers of all ages will be captured by the adventure of these two little mice as they embark on a little treasure expedition.

Yes I would purchase this book for our bookshelves.

I loved Kuhlmann's Armstrong, so was happy to have the chance to read Edison: The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure. I adored it.

A little mouse, Pete, wants to find his ancestor's treasure. The problem is that all the little mouse knows is that his ancestor sailed across the Atlantic and was never heard from again. He asks Professor Mouse to help him and together they find the ship that the mouse sailed on. Unfortunately the boat sank in the middle of the ocean, presumably with the treasure on board. Just like so many other mice, the Professor and Pete are very clever. It requires a lot of experimentation, research and a trip to the museum, but they build a mouse submarine that allows them to get to the bottom of the ocean and retrieve the treasure. They also discover what happened to Pete's ancestor - don't worry, he had a happy ending. He was rescued from the ship, just like all the human passengers.

The text can be a bit long, depending on the child, but the illustrations and plot make up for it. It's a cute story and the detailed watercolor and ink illustrations are just gorgeous.

Edison is definitely a book I would have added to our collection when Amber was younger. You'll have to read it to see what the connection to Edison the inventor is though.

When adventure calls upon you, and should you have a weakness for such things, there is hardly a way of not complying…even if you are a mouse!

“He left this letter behind. He talks about the treasure and his journey to America. This piece of paper has been in our family’s possession for generations. It’s the last sign of life that we have of my ancestor.”
-Torben Kuhlman

Written in old-fashioned mouse language, Pete, the little mouse brings a sheet of paper to the professor of the University of Mice. He needs a bit of help in his quest to find more information on this ancestor and what has possibly come of this treasure.

Kindly the professor helps him search for clues in newspaper clippings…and oh no…the transatlantic liner that Pete’s relative was on sank to the bottom of the sea.

But mice are resourceful and it does not take them long at all to locate where this wreck with the treasure might be!
Pete tries his hand and building a contraption that would serve as an underwater swimming machine. He experiments with glasses and waits and learns about buoyancy and what it means to be trapped during the experiment! Luckily the professor saves him.
Together they embark on visiting a museum on nature study and hit the books to learn from other inventions. With clever ingenuity, they draw up plans for a mouse submarine and get to work in a garage to build the parts and put the contraption together.

And then comes the day they have waited so long for. Disguised in a box of a shipping container, they make the journey across the Atlantic to dive for the sunken ship.
How will this adventure turn out? There are dangers lurking all around. From furry to scaly animals and gentle giants…this sure becomes an unforgettable trip and the discovery of secrets…. Could mice have been the real inventors of human ideas?

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I found out about Torben Kuhlmann through some posts on Twitter. Since the illustrator is from Germany and some years younger than I, I had never heard of him before while living overseas. However, I was immediately smitten with his art and hoped to be able to read one of his books. I was very lucky to discover it on NetGalley.

The illustrations in this book are gorgeous. The colors and hues are soft and the general allure speaks of old fashioned charm. It has historical fiction elements and it came together perfectly. A real treat.

As of late I am really enjoying and appreciating these sort of books. Book illustrations have come such a long way, yet they make you feel like a young kid again.

The elements to discuss are boundless from this book. If you are reading with a child, there are so many themes one could talk about. The crossing of the Atlantic, ship wrecks, library catalogues, inventions…they are all conversation starters and a lovely way to spend time with littles.
There are beautiful pictures of famous inventors scattered though out and there is more information for readers at the end of the book.

It is absolutely an amazing picture book. With a mouse as the hero, what cannot be good about that?! The only rival might be an equally stellar book about cats :)

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I received a digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange of an honest review. All opinions are my own. Thank you.

I thought this was a great read for elementary school kids, especially if they're interested in science. I work in a school library and I hope to purchase this title. The artwork is absolutely beautiful. I think the combination of science with a mouse protagonist will catch the kids' interest. It's short but meaty.

A treasure make takes two mini explorers on an epic adventure that begins with inventions and takes them to the depths of the sea. A longer picture book with detailed illustrations and a creative take on history from a mouse’s perspective.

When a new mouse shows up at the mouse university with word of a missing treasure, the professor turns him away. But who can really resist that kind of adventure?

This children's book is so much fun! I absolutely loved the story, and above all else the illustrations. The pictures are insanely gorgeous, and incredibly detailed. There is also a lot of very valuable scientific information thrown in, which would help to build up a child's knowledge. I would happily buy a copy of this book!

My only criticism is that some of the writing could have been a little better, it was a little bit flat and wordy in parts, and could have used just a touch more flow.

Overall, I love this book and would happily recommend it to children, and to adults who love a good illustration!

If nothing else, the illustrations in this book are breathtaking. The attention to detail and softness of them are a sight to see. The book itself is clever, fun and holds your interest. Pete the mouse goes to the Professor with a family treasure map. He tries to talk the Professor into going with him on a treasure hunt to find the treasure. After Pete attempts to do it by himself (the Professor thought he was to old for adventure), the professor agrees to help him. Thus a submarine is built through hard work and determination. The story continues from there and through illustration and story it will keep you reading. This is a good beginning chapter book for those starting to read those. It is geared more for 7+ in my opinion due to the information given in the book. I don't think a younger child would understand and lose interest. I also like it gives brief information in back to lead to discussion on who really invented the lightbulb. It also has a short biography of Thomas Edison and some of his other inventions.
I received this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Torben Kuhlmann takes readers to the deepest depths of the ocean in Edison: The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure.

Edison is a sweet story about how tenacity and ingenuity help two mice plumb the depths of the Atlantic Ocean in search of treasure and the truth behind a family mystery. The story is enjoyable; the art is what makes this unforgettable.

Kuhlmann's detailed ink drawings bring a realism to a story about two mice who build a submarine that you wouldn't expect. His detailed work adorns not just the traditional story layout but the entire book. Fans of the Whole Book Approach to reading - or those who just like to discuss everything they see with their children - will enjoy the extra details along the end pages and covers.

Throughout the story, the mice draw invention sketches and schematics, and search through old book and photos. Kuhlmann cleverly includes those details among the storyboards. The result is that readers will experience the scientific method, alongside the mice. It's a great way to introduce STEM concepts to young readers.

Edison is the third in a series, although it stands alone quite well. If you enjoyed it or just want to see more of Kuhlmann's gorgeous work, be sure to check out Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse and Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon.

<<I will post my review to my blog, Jamie the Bookie, when we get closer to the release date.>>

I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Edison: The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure recounts the adventures of Pete and the Professor as they attempt to locate Pete's ancestor's treasure. The treasure went down in a shipwreck and the two mice work hard to figure out how to reach it at the bottom of the ocean. They're in for quite the adventure and a surprise, as it seems Pete's ancestor was somehow involved with a very famous inventor.
I loved Kuhlmann's Lindbergh and Armstrong, so I was excited to see a third mouse story come out. The story is expertly told and the illustrations are beautiful, with fantastic details. Edison did not disappoint and was a delight to read.

A big thank you to NetGalley and North South Books for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. This is a gorgeous children's book. I loved it! They illustrations are super fun. It is Pete's adventure to find a treasure. I think most children would enjoy reading or having this book read to them. I rate this a 4.5.

Torben has done it again. Readers will dive (sorry) into this sumptuously illustrated tale of a young inventor and adventurer!