Seven Blind Mice By: Ed Young (Traditional/Folk Literature)

Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young, is a Folk Literature book about seven blind mice who discover something near their pond. As each mouse goes to the pond to decide what it is at the pond, each mouse returns with a different idea about what they saw. As they begin to argue about this, the last mouse goes to check out what the object is at the pond. Instead of just looking on, the mouse climbs on the object, feels it and walks from end to end. He comes back to the other mice and explains to them that all the aspects of what they thought the object was helped in his decision about what the object really was. He discovered the the object was indeed an elephant! The white mouse, the last one to observe and discover the object, explained the moral of this is you must see things a whole and not just one part. I felt this book had a great moral background that students could definitely learn from. The pictures in this book were amazing. Each mouse was a different color, with a black background on each page. It was so bright and colorful and really fun to look at as you read along.