The Lion & the Mouse Review

	Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Author(s): Jerry Pinkney Binding: Hardcover Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars	Retail Price: ~~$16.99~~ Online Sale Price: $9.38 Save $7.61 Today! * Price is subject to change.
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In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's trap. With vivid depictions of the landscape of the African Serengeti and expressively-drawn characters, Pinkney makes this a truly special retelling, and his stunning pictures speak volumes.

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August 1, 2010
Helping Others Has Rewards
This is the fable with a new twist. The young reader will respond to the sounds of the animals and create his or her own oral story. The illustrations bring out the beauty of art for the imagination. Time and time again the young reader will tell the tale of the rewards brought out by assisting others. And the ending of this book has a unique surprise.

July 12, 2010
Picture Book
I bought this book on a recommendation from my friend. The story is a classic and loving story that took me back to my childhood. We improv-ed and had a fantastic time filling in the story line using the pictures - My son (3) and my daughter (6) both enjoyed the book. My son was a little more curious about the pictures and after we read the book, he quietly turned the pages and looked at the pictures for a while. What I love about Picture Books that have no words - like this book, is the power of images and the child's mind and watching them fill in with their own words. I get a new scenarios each time the book is read, though the moral of the story is always the same. highly recommended.

July 2, 2010
A Must Have for Every Child
A beautifully illustrated fable of two remarkable animals who learn to be a friend and help out, no matter what!!

No wonder this book won the Caldecott Award this year!! The award was well deserved! Fabulous for all ages!!

June 29, 2010
Wonderful book!
We checked this book out from our library, and my boys liked it so much that I ordered it for our personal collection! It is a wonderful book - beautiful artwork with a classic story. It is a timeless classic.

June 8, 2010
Wordless wonder!
This is a lovely, vivid reimaging of the classic fable The Lion and the Mouse. Even if you don't know the story, the pictures will elucidate it wonderfully for you - which of course will allow your small child to understand it without your help.

Some people object to wordless picture books on principle, because they are unfamiliar with them. This is what I have to say to that:

Wordless picture books are PERFECT for pre-readers. It gives them the ability to read a book - REALLY own the experience instead of just "playing" as they must do when they can't understand the words - on their own. It gives them practice in putting together stories and working out details from context. And it allows them to be the expert at some activity that is usually restricted to adults and older children in their life - reading a book.

By that same token, they are also ideal for early readers. It's non-threatening, and yet it's still a way to practice following a storyline. Reading is more than just mechanically putting together sounds and reciting them, after all. Many people are impressed by a five year old who can say, word-perfect, some complex piece he or she "reads" from a page, but later they find out that the child has no idea what they just read and wasn't thinking of reading as an exercise in gleaning meaning from text, but merely as reciting memorized sounds and letter combinations. Working out the story for themselves from a book with no words is a wonderful way to practice this sort of "reading for meaning".

But what of the child who stumbles in reading? Well, the child who stumbles when reading but can tell you WHAT they read is light-years ahead of the one who sounds pretty but doesn't grasp the meaning. At any rate, this child is still getting much needed practice in the conventions of reading without the letters to stress and trip them up.

Of course, you don't want the only book in your house to be a wordless picture book, I understand that, because children do need print to practice reading, but a few are a WONDERFUL thing for a child. And who has just one book, anyway?

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