By Rowboat Watkins (author) , Rowboat Watkins (illustrator)
"Quirky, fun, moustache-filled-to-overflowing picture book."
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April 2026 Picture Book of the Month
Absolutely everything in this quirky, endlessly pore-over-able picture book is sprouting a moustache, starting with our heroes, a mouse and a moose, aka Mousestache and Moosestache.
As they travel through the pages they encounter duckstaches, cluckstaches, stuck-inside truckstaches, grandfather clockstaches, migrating flockstaches, even (my favourite) tropical fruitstaches, some strumming lutestaches.
Every turn of the page brings another surprising and cleverly composed scene, Rowboat Watkins’ soft-toned pen and pencil illustrations somehow giving the whole business a sense of normality no matter how absurd (very!) the actual action, while the text is a surreal delight to read aloud: ‘passenger trainstaches, wee drops of rainstaches’ – yes please!
One of the quirkiest, most original and fascinating picture books of the year.
From the wild imagination of Rowboat Watkins, author of Rude Cakes and Go-Go Guys, comes a riotous read-aloud about every kind of mustache imaginable!
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From the wild imagination of Rowboat Watkins, author of Rude Cakes and Go-Go Guys , comes a riotous read-aloud about every kind of mustache imaginable!
Hip, hip, HOORAY-stache! It's your lucky day-stache!
Join Mouse and Moose in a mustache?mania world packed with silly rhymes and playful illustrations-perfect for building early reading skills, nurturing a love of language, and keeping readers laughing along the way.
Sit down and stay-stache! And read this book right AWAY-stache!
Rowboat Watkins was a recipient of the Sendak Fellowship and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, but you can also visit him at rowboatwatkins.com. He may or may not have a mustache.
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From the wild imagination of Rowboat Watkins, author of Rude Cakes and Go-Go Guys, comes a riotous read-aloud about every kind of mustache imaginable! Hip, hip, HOORAY-stache!
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Mousestache Moosestache and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
Mousestache Moosestache features in the following genres: Featured Books for 3+ readers, Featured Books for 5+ readers, Books of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Adventure Stories, Funny, Animal Stories, Picture storybooks: imagination and play, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Interactive adventure stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Picture storybooks, Children’s picture books, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts
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Mousestache Moosestache was written by Rowboat Watkins and published by Chronicle Books
Mousestache Moosestache has 40 pages
£12.59, reduced from £13.99. In Stock.
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