Seven Blind Mice

Ed, Young .(Author & Illustrator)
Seven Blind mice, Cadelcott Honor Winner
NY: Philomel Books, 1992.

Seven Mice blind mice go out into the unknown one at a time to investagate a odd sighting.

Appropriate Age/Grade Level: Preschool- K.

Evaluation Criteria
1. Content
Days if the week, colors, descriptive words.

2. Illustrations
The cover of the book draws engages children immediately. The dark black with the colorful detailed illustration serves to hold attention as the reader goes about the journey of the seven colorful blind mice.

3. Theme
Each day has a mouse, each mouse is a color. Each colored mouse venture out one by one to investigate a strange sighting, not the end of the book do they realize what this is. The theme centers around days of the week an colors.

Personal Reaction
I found the book to be a delight for young children. The bright colors truly keep attention and the rhythmic flow of words will have the children engaged quickly. I would read this again to ages preschool through 1st grade.


Discussion questions
1.What are some of the days of the week?
2.What some of the colors of the mice in the story'?
3.What happend at the end of the book?