Publisher:Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (September 1, 2000)
Illustrations by Buket Erdogan
Ages: 4-8
This is a story about a mouse who is very scared when he goes out on Halloween, but discovers that things aren't always scary.He hears sounds and then he realizes that whatever is making that sound isn't always. He ends up getting a piece of candy and he is not afraid.
This was an interesting story, and I didn't enjoy it as much as the others. I think the reason why I didn't like it as much was because there wasn't really any plot, or setting for that matter. Also there was very little character development, so I think I would shy away from using this book with older students for sure. With that being said there are also some good things you can teach from this such as the author uses a lot of onomatopoeia when the sounds are being made like "plop!". This would be a good book to use to teach that. Also the author uses m-dashes very frequently, and I think m-dashes are hard to teach and are often not taught so this would be a nice resources. Their is also a lot of verbs that end in -ing, and they are in motion like the word they are describing. For example, tumbling would be written in a tumbling motion, and that is good for students to picture the word. The illustrations were pretty well done, and I think they would be very helpful for younger students to picture what the words mean.
I would use this book to teach onomatopoeia for sure, and I think I might even use it for younger students if they are working on the -ing ending because the illustrations and how the word is written would really help students understand the meaning of the word.
Thanks for reading!
Gorms
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