The Lion and the Mouse

Title: The Lion and the Mouse
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Publisher: Hatchett Book Group, Inc. http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/
Publication Date: 2009
Genre: Wordless Picture Book
Audience: All
Awards: The Caldecott Medal
Overview: This infamous Aesop fable tells the tale of the growing friendship between two unlikely characters, a proud lion and a cunning mouse. The mouse finds himself in a compromising situation as he tries to escape from predators and seeks safety on the back of a lion. The lion is initially stunned by the mouse's bravery and automatically attempts to scare him off, which turns out to be harder than he had thought. However, after the mouse and the lion go their separate ways, the lion finds himself in his own compromising situation when he trying to be captured by humans, and the mouse comes to his rescue to help him escape out of the net by chewing through it. At the end, the lion's family joins together with the mouse's family in harmony and they work together to protect each other from all sorts of different predators.
Activity: I think a good activity for this book would be to have the students create their own story or words to the illustrations to help improve their creative development and draw inferences and assumptions based solely on pictures.
Reviewers Name: Moira Schafle