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Seven Blind Mice
by
Ed Young
"It's a pillar," says one. "It's a fan," says another. One by one, the seven blind mice investigate the strange Something by the pond. And one by one, they come back with a different theory. It's only when the seventh mouse goes out-and explores the whole Something-that the mice see the whole truth. Based on a classic Indian tale, Ed Young's beautifully rendered version is...more
Paperback, 40 pages
Published
June 10th 2002
by Puffin Books
(first published April 29th 1992)
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Seven Blind Mice
By Ed Young
Young, E. (1992). Seven blind mice. New York: Penguin Young Readers.
1.Traditional Literature
2.Seven blind mice discover something across the pond. Each mouse went over to examine the object only to bring back different opinions on what the object may be. Some though a snake, a rope, a pillar, or a spear. In the end the mice come together and figure out what exactly that object may be.
3.Moral
b. This is a great book for the moral at the end of the story. All the mic...more
By Ed Young
Young, E. (1992). Seven blind mice. New York: Penguin Young Readers.
1.Traditional Literature
2.Seven blind mice discover something across the pond. Each mouse went over to examine the object only to bring back different opinions on what the object may be. Some though a snake, a rope, a pillar, or a spear. In the end the mice come together and figure out what exactly that object may be.
3.Moral
b. This is a great book for the moral at the end of the story. All the mic...more
Kimmel’s Pick
Genre – Traditional Literature
Summary:
Join the seven blind mice as they try to discover what the “Something” is by the pond. One by one they go and explore to figure out what it is. Each one comes back with a different answer until the seventh mouse takes longer and explores the whole “Something” to find out that they all were right.
A) The vivid illustrations engage the reader.
B) As the story is read you become engrossed in the illustrations and storyline wondering what the “Somet...more
Genre – Traditional Literature
Summary:
Join the seven blind mice as they try to discover what the “Something” is by the pond. One by one they go and explore to figure out what it is. Each one comes back with a different answer until the seventh mouse takes longer and explores the whole “Something” to find out that they all were right.
A) The vivid illustrations engage the reader.
B) As the story is read you become engrossed in the illustrations and storyline wondering what the “Somet...more
Genre: Traditional
Summary: Seven Blind Mice come across a “strange something” and are determined to figure out what exactly that something is. So each day one mouse sets out to examine this peculiar “something,” but each come up with a different conclusion. It is not until the last mouse takes a good thorough feel of the “something” and (along with the suggestions of the others) is able to figure out exactly what the “strange something” is.
A. Area for Comment: Visual Imagery through textural det...more
Summary: Seven Blind Mice come across a “strange something” and are determined to figure out what exactly that something is. So each day one mouse sets out to examine this peculiar “something,” but each come up with a different conclusion. It is not until the last mouse takes a good thorough feel of the “something” and (along with the suggestions of the others) is able to figure out exactly what the “strange something” is.
A. Area for Comment: Visual Imagery through textural det...more
Genre: Traditional
Summary: Seven blind mice find something by their pond. Each mouse sets out and describes the object to the other mice. Each mouse describes a different part of the object and none of the mice can agree on what the object is until the seventh white mouse sets out to find the solution. The white mouse explores all parts of the object and discovers that it is an elephant, encompassing all the descriptions of the mice.
Critique: A. Moral
B. & C. This story is wonderful to teach...more
Summary: Seven blind mice find something by their pond. Each mouse sets out and describes the object to the other mice. Each mouse describes a different part of the object and none of the mice can agree on what the object is until the seventh white mouse sets out to find the solution. The white mouse explores all parts of the object and discovers that it is an elephant, encompassing all the descriptions of the mice.
Critique: A. Moral
B. & C. This story is wonderful to teach...more
Based on the folktale about the blind men and the elephant, this story features seven colorful, but blind, mice who are puzzled by the arrival of an unfamiliar “Something” by their pond one day. On the first day, Red Mouse reports that the Something is a pillar, but the other mice don’t believe him. So on each of the following days, a different mouse explores a different part of the Something and each reports completely different findings! Purple Mouse is sure it’s a cliff, but Blue Mouse thinks...more
Genre: Traditional Literature/Picture Book/Caldecott Honor Book
Seven Blind Mice are trying to investigate a strange something, they all argue about what they think it is until the last mouse brings all the pieces together.
This story is done in interesting graphic collage illustrations.
The illustrator created the pictures through paper collage set against a black background. This makes for a visually enticing story, as your eye is drawn to the colors and therefore the pictures. The collage pictu...more
Seven Blind Mice are trying to investigate a strange something, they all argue about what they think it is until the last mouse brings all the pieces together.
This story is done in interesting graphic collage illustrations.
The illustrator created the pictures through paper collage set against a black background. This makes for a visually enticing story, as your eye is drawn to the colors and therefore the pictures. The collage pictu...more
1. Picture Book-Traditional Literature
2. Seven blind mice of all different colors find themselves exploring something by the pond on different days of the week. After explaining different pieces they discovered on this something, they realized it was an elephant.
3a. Creative symbols imagined from elephant parts
3b. The symbols used by each mouse expressed creative ways for blind mice to determine what object was near the pond. There guesses ranged from nature to weapons. All the guesses they gave...more
2. Seven blind mice of all different colors find themselves exploring something by the pond on different days of the week. After explaining different pieces they discovered on this something, they realized it was an elephant.
3a. Creative symbols imagined from elephant parts
3b. The symbols used by each mouse expressed creative ways for blind mice to determine what object was near the pond. There guesses ranged from nature to weapons. All the guesses they gave...more
Ed Young unveiled his artistic brilliance in 1989 with his Caldecott winner Lon Po Po, a Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood that is so compelling as to be genuinely disturbing. This book, also earning a Caldecott recognition, is much gentler. It reinvents the traditional Indian tale of the blind men and the elephant with seven blind mice of different colors. This, of course, reminds you of Mother Goose’s “Three Blind Mice,” but these mice keep their tails — in fact, the first we see of th...more
Genre: Traditional Literature Picture Book
Seven blind mice are trying to figure out the new, strange something by the pond. Each one has their own guesses as to what it is, but they find out that they need to put all of their guesses together and look at the whole picture instead of just one part to find out the identity of the mysterious something.
a.) A major strength of this book is the theme/moral of the story.
b.) I enjoy books that have a strong and important life messages for not only child...more
Seven blind mice are trying to figure out the new, strange something by the pond. Each one has their own guesses as to what it is, but they find out that they need to put all of their guesses together and look at the whole picture instead of just one part to find out the identity of the mysterious something.
a.) A major strength of this book is the theme/moral of the story.
b.) I enjoy books that have a strong and important life messages for not only child...more
Seven Blind Mice is an excellent example of how to combine graphic art and vocabulary into a stimulating story time with children. No surprise that it’s a Caldecott Honor Book. Just let me point out things people might take for granted: the text size and font are nicely balanced against the images; the page size provides a tidy and expansive field for eyes to rove; Ed Young’s choice of a black background not only makes the color pop, but it doesn’t pull the eye into a meaningless void; and the b...more
Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young is adapted from the Indian tale. The book opens with black pages, adding to the detail of the colors in the book. The seven mice are each a different color: red, green, yellow, purple, blue, orange, and white. They begin a journey that takes them on a mission to figure out a mystery they uncover at the pond. Each mouse go about to discover how to solve the mystery. Each mouse brings a different viewpoint and they all come together at the end to argue what was by the...more
I read this book in my university through my English professor.
When I saw the cover page, I just thought this book is just for children so I could not understand why professor chose this book to read for us. However, the colorful mice and some strange thing made me curious and I started concentrating on the story without any realisation. The story was simple. Seven mice met a kind of border and they guess what is that depending on ther view. The seventh mouse certainly says what it is. After I h...more
When I saw the cover page, I just thought this book is just for children so I could not understand why professor chose this book to read for us. However, the colorful mice and some strange thing made me curious and I started concentrating on the story without any realisation. The story was simple. Seven mice met a kind of border and they guess what is that depending on ther view. The seventh mouse certainly says what it is. After I h...more
Young's fresh rendition of the classic Indian tale, "The Blind Men and the Elephant" contains elements of a traditional fable. For example, it is a very short tale with animals as the main characters, there is a moral to the story, and it appears to be simple but conveys abstract ideas. Well deserving of the Caldecott medal, Young captures the seemingly simplistic aspect of a fable in his illustrations. Young utilizes color to set the mood by contrasting a black background with colorful mice and...more
The winner of the 1992 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for the picture book category (and the 1993 Caldecott Honor choice) Young’s re-telling of an ancient Indian tale is as captivatingly told as it is illustrated. This is the story of seven blind mice who encounter an elephant; each one attempting to describe the elephant based on the one part of him that they examine. Six of them describe the whole of the elephant based on incomplete examination, while the seventh mouse wisely puts all the parts...more
Seven Blind Mice was such a cute and interesting book with a great moral behind it. It was about how six blind mice, one by one go on an adventure to figure out what sort of "Strange Something" was by their pond. They each return with a different idea of what this strange something could be, and when the seventh blind mouse goes out, he returns after exploring the complete something rather than just one part like the other mice did. This final mouse concludes what the "strange something" is and...more
Seven Blind Mice is a story about seven blind mice who find something unknown and are too afraid to confront their fears at the time. So, on Monday, the red mouse went and said he found a pillar. No one believed him. On Tuesday, green mouse went and said it was a snake. On Wednesday, Yellow mouse went and said it was a spear. On Thursday, purple mouse went and said it was a cliff. On Friday, orange mouse went and said it was a fan. On Saturday, blue mouse went and said it was a rope. After the s...more
Genre: Traditional Literature
Summary: Seven mice discover something strange laying by their pond. After running home scared, they each decide to investigate the object but each comes back with a different idea of what it could be.
A) Area of Focus: Illustrations
B) The use of an all black page with only the mice shown in color really highlights the fact that the mice are indeed blind, and what they must do to figure out what the foreign object may be.
C) On page 2, we see all seven mice sitting on...more
Summary: Seven mice discover something strange laying by their pond. After running home scared, they each decide to investigate the object but each comes back with a different idea of what it could be.
A) Area of Focus: Illustrations
B) The use of an all black page with only the mice shown in color really highlights the fact that the mice are indeed blind, and what they must do to figure out what the foreign object may be.
C) On page 2, we see all seven mice sitting on...more
I enjoyed reading this book. The message in this book is great. Looking at parts of things is fine, but if you want to understand something, you have to look at it as a whole.
The text structure lends itself to young readers. It is good for predicting. The illustrations also lend themselves to predicting because each time a different mouse goes to look at the "something", readers should be seeing a different part of the elephant. By the end, readers should be able to predict that it is an elepha...more
The text structure lends itself to young readers. It is good for predicting. The illustrations also lend themselves to predicting because each time a different mouse goes to look at the "something", readers should be seeing a different part of the elephant. By the end, readers should be able to predict that it is an elepha...more
“Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.” The moral to this story, Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young, has an even deeper meaning when one realizes that this beautifully illustrated, Caldecott honored book, has been challenged for touting white supremacy. The reader, both child and adult, will marvel at the brightly colored collage images of seven different mice and one BIG elephant. The mice each go out to discover what the big “something” is, and come back to sh...more
This book had amazing illustrations that resembled a collage, and the bright colors against the black background really made each tiny, blind mouse pop from the page. I was actually excited to turn each page and discover a new piece of information that may tell me what this “something” by the pond could be. Leave it to the smart, patient white mouse to explore the entire surface of the “something” and find out that it is actually a giant elephant, not even close to the guesses from the other mic...more
Seven Blind Mice
Ed Young
In this short tale, the author uses colorful illustrations and seven blind mice to present the teamwork message that the whole is greater, or in this case wiser, than its parts. This story begins when seven blind mice come upon a strange object, that they have never encountered before. Each day, the mice return to the object and theorize about what the object might be solely based on the part of the object they came in contact with. It is not until the wise white mouse de...more
Ed Young
In this short tale, the author uses colorful illustrations and seven blind mice to present the teamwork message that the whole is greater, or in this case wiser, than its parts. This story begins when seven blind mice come upon a strange object, that they have never encountered before. Each day, the mice return to the object and theorize about what the object might be solely based on the part of the object they came in contact with. It is not until the wise white mouse de...more
Seven Blind Mice is about each mouse exploring and finding a different interpretation of the same thing. In the end there is a moral to teach children that a part of something is never as good as finding out the whole part. The pictures are a black background but the mice and color of the elephant they are exploring are bright and exciting. These exciting colors are perfect for the exciting adventure that the children go through with these mice to fine out what is near their pond, which is an el...more
Seven Blind Mice is a tale based on the ancient fable of the Blind Men and the Elephant. Caldecott medalist Ed Young’s illustrations are paper collage with black backgrounds, white border, and bright colorful subject manner. The seven blind mice were surprised to find a strange Something by their pond. Each mouse is a different color- gray, green, yellow, purple, blue and actually two red mice. Each mouse investigates the Something each day and comes up with a theory of what the Something is. Th...more
Seven Blind Mice is a book about 7 blind mice who find something strange. Each mouse takes a turn to gather information by investigating only a part of the new strange thing. The mice disagree on what they think it is until the last mouse runs all over it, gathering information from the whole thing and not one part.
I liked how the pictures were all black which bright distinct colored shapes. The darkness makes the reader feel the blindness of the mice. It's also fun to see the different parts o...more
I liked how the pictures were all black which bright distinct colored shapes. The darkness makes the reader feel the blindness of the mice. It's also fun to see the different parts o...more
Using bold, playful primary colors, Caldecott winner Ed Young creates seven blind mice that will steal the hearts of the very youngest readers. This is a warm and entertaining fable of seven tiny creatures who set out to discover the "Something" by the pond--but who each come back with a different answer. 1993 Caldecott Honor Book. Full color.
The moral of this story is that when one looks at something in pieces, it may look very different from when you look at the whole picture.
This book has gr...more
The moral of this story is that when one looks at something in pieces, it may look very different from when you look at the whole picture.
This book has gr...more
Seven Blind Mice, by Ed Young
This is a great story with a great lesson for children, adults, and everyone in between. In the story seven little mice each examine a different part of the elephant and decide they know what the object is. However, it isn’t until the seventh mouse runs across, around, up, and down – over the entire elephant and reveals its true identity. The story ends with the moral: “Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.”
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This is a great story with a great lesson for children, adults, and everyone in between. In the story seven little mice each examine a different part of the elephant and decide they know what the object is. However, it isn’t until the seventh mouse runs across, around, up, and down – over the entire elephant and reveals its true identity. The story ends with the moral: “Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.”
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I think that Seven Blind Mice would be a fun book to read aloud for young readers, maybe preschool to first grade. I love how the pages are in black to illustrate the mice's blindness, and how the colorful mice brighten it up. I think that young kids would enjoy this book because it would be fun to guess what the 'Something' is that they are feeling. I also think that it would be great for them to think about how things may feel alike (like a tusk and a spear). A third thing I enjoyed about this...more
Sep 29, 2012
Jessica Marks
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Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young is a wonderful children's book. Each mouse has a different theory of what the thing in front of them may be. They work together to figure out what it is. In the end the white mouse puts all their findings together and says, "The Something is as sturdy as a pillar, supple as a snake, wide as a cliff, sharp as a spear, breezy as a fan, stringy as a rope, but all together is an elephant!" None of the mice feel inferior to another because their guesses contributed to the...more
When reading the book I was amazed by the use of so many colors for the mice despite them being blind. I thought this was an interesting how each mice's idea match their color. His use of all black in the background I felt was a symbol of the what blind people see. In the end it was great to show the use of our other senses and how they can help people paint a picture of what something is. I also really like the simplicity of the images in the story.
I read this in class today and asked my kids...more
Aug 25, 2009
Bernadette
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I enjoyed this Turkish tale very much, especially because I like elephants! There is the added bonus of ordinal numbers, days of the week, and even colors. I do not think the book reveals much about the Turkish culture, but I think it would be a great addition to a study on tales from around the world or a study on Turkey or the Middle East. It would be interesting for students to compare the moral of this story to the morals of stories from their own culture or others they have read. The creati...more
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