Author and Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Type: Picture
Grade Level: K-3
Rating: 4 out of 5
A wordless picture book that shows the interactions between a lion and a mouse.
I'm not very used to wordless picture books but this one made me fall in love with them. I love the concept that comes with them. The reader is forced into the role of author and their creativity is encouraged to run wild with the images. The illustrations were amazing and definitely worthy of the Caldecott Award they earned. Jerry Pinkney was able to show the story so wonderfully because of his extraordinary artwork. If the images were lesser than the story would not have been as effective.
A book like this is great because everybody "reads" it differently. In your classroom every child will have a different outlook on things. After reading the book you could ask your students to tell their story to show that each person gains something different from the images. This book would be great to read aloud and let your students write stories to go along with it. You also could use this book for a unit on inferring and predicting based on pictures.
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