Maisy's Mix-and Match Mousewear
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Maisy's Mix-and Match Mousewear
This is a durable and well-constructed flap book in stiff covers, its spiral binding incorporated in the spine. Each page is divided into three to make a head/body/legs version of Maisy. Six sets of outfits make 216 different combinations possible.
Though popular and fun, flipping pages to create new outfits, I felt there is neither enough variety in the types of clothing depicted – ballerina top/flowery shirt/pirate top/baseball shirt/swimming costume are all fairly interchangeable anyway – nor are the outfits well enough differentiated to make many really funny or incongruous combinations. A themed collection – seasonal clothing or dressing-up costumes – might have engendered more possibilities. Nevertheless this will doubtless be enjoyed by Maisy fans.
