Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young

Genre: Animal Stories, Fables, Folklore, Myths
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Awards/Honors: Caldecott Honor Book
Page: 40 pages

Summary:
Seven colorful blind mice discover a SOMETHING by their pond. Each mice according to the day of the week goes and explore only one part of the SOMETHING and comes back a share with the other mice what he/she thinks the SOMETHING is. As each mice explore the SOMETHING their perspective is different. It takes the seventh mice which is white to tell the rest of the mice what the SOMETHING, an elephant, is.

Personal rating and explanation:
I rate this book as being great. The book hascoloring pictures on a dark background, large print, and easy flowing.

Reading Level: 3.3
Interest level: K-3

Integrated Level:
Science: Place an object in a feeling box. Have one child at a time feel the object and tell one thing about the object such as it has four legs, etc. until seven people have shared something about the object. Then let the class guess what it is.

Math: Placed seven colorful mouse (one per each color represented in the book) on the wall. Pass out color word and have students match the color word to the right colored mouse.
Use this activity to do ordinal numerals, too.

Writing: Share Writing - Using the book as a springboard , choose an animal (giraffe) and write a sentence for each day of the week describing how the blind mice would state what certain part of that animal would be, Example, On Monday the first mice said the Something was a leaf (ear) and continue using the days of the week and ordinal numerals in each sentence

Potential Problems or Difficulties:
Students might have a hard time understanding the concept of blindness.