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The Lion & the Mouse |  | Author: Jerry Pinkney
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Seller: once-upon-a-september
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 915
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First edition/first printing
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 40
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 11.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0316013560
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.2
EAN: 9780316013567
ASIN: 0316013560
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Brand new hardcover w/dust jacket. Gift/collectible quality. First edition/first printing. Full number line. No marks or shelfwear. We ship daily.
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 Helping Others Has Rewards August 1, 2010
Richard Oldenburg
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.
Picture Book July 12, 2010
mommy mo
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.
A Must Have for Every Child July 2, 2010
pkinglib
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!!
Wonderful book! June 29, 2010
M. Ashton (Snohomish, WA)
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.
 Wordless wonder! June 8, 2010
Ulyyf (NYC)
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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