Wordless Picture Books

Pinkney .J (2009). The lion & the mouse.. Singapore: Hachette book group

ISBN 978-0-316-01356-7

The story is wonderful tail of what you do to others can be done to you. The lions saves the mouse in the begining, by one not letting the owl take the mouse and two not keeping the mouse when he captured her.The mouse makes it safely back to her large family, but the lion on the other hand cats caught in a net set by a hunter and is roaring for help. Amd who hears him, mouse and she comes and rescues the lion and both are free and safe and get to go back to their families.
This book is really good for 3-5 year old children because  it has good concepts that i think the children will grow to understand through exploration of the book . The children will be able to see if they help others that most likely others will help them back.

Provocations
1. Having the picture on the wall of the front cover and the back cover so children can get comfortable with the illustratuions and what will happen in the book. Even if the children pay little attention to the pictures they will still be able to connect it together when the story is read to them.
2.Have lion and mouse stuffies and toys spred throughout the room for the child to play and explore the concepts of the animals.

Three possible ways to present the story.
1. Tell the story throught puppets.
2.Get the children to give both the lion and the mouse a voice througout the book while we explore the story.
3. Use a felt board or a magnetic board to tell the story so teh children can have another visual story and a chance to make the story their own.

Three possible extensions
1.The story looks like it is set in an  african setting so the class can look at african animals like lions,zebras and elephants and make up their own safari.
2.The children can put on a play about the story and we can get them an audience of other children or even parents to see what thier children are learning. The children could have complete control of how the play changes and how the children interprete what the story means to them.
3. The children can make their own stories about animals or what they are passionate about and, then the teachers can laminate them and make them so all the children and parents have a chance to read the stories. When the other children rad the stories they can understand a bit about each and every person.