Seven Blind Mice | 
“The mouse moral: Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.“
“The mouse moral: Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.“
This book is a fable for many reasons. It is based on the Indian fable of the blind men and an elephant. It has personification where the mice behave like humans. The number seven is also very common in fables and it stands for each day of the week in this story. Also it has a moral that you cant just look at parts, you cant see until you see the whole picture.
pickThe seven blind mice notice something new comes to their pond. Each day of the week each mouse goes and says its something different. The last mouse goes and finds out it is something that entails what each mouse said.
Illustrations- The illustrations change depending what each mouse is describing.
This book would be great for age 4-6. This is a simple and fast read for children.
pickThis book was a great read. The seven blind mice work together to identify an object. The illustrations are simple but describe what each mouse is seeing.
“The mouse moral: Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.”
pickThis Children‘s award winning book is a fun story for kids with a great lesson. The illustrations are fun and colorful. This book showed that everyone has their own perspective but that you don‘t really understand until you it all.
pickThis F book is great for S and the illustrations are simple yet effective. The book is not text heave so it would be great for ELLs to read and listen to. At the same time, it still provide a powerful example of why it is important to know the complete story. #UCFSU19
Caldecott Medal
UDL 1.2
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pickThis is a really beautiful TL picture book. Ed Young has a very unique and colorful way of illustrating his work, and it‘s very captivating. This book tells the story of seven blind mice who find an unfamiliar thing at the pond that they frequent. The mice try to figure out what it is by climbing over bits and pieces of it one by one, but it‘s not until their sibling climbs the entire thing that they figure out what it is.
