Picture Book 5

Title: The Lion and the Mouse

Author: Jerry Pinkney
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Children's Literature
Theme:Bullying Prevention

Primary and Secondary characters: The lion and the Mouse
Awards, date of publication: 1989, Caldecott Award
Publishing company: Little, Brown and Company

Brief Summary and how this book can be used in the classroom: This book tells the story of a mouse who is scared by the animals of the forest. He is so scared that he accidently runs up the back of a lion. The lion does not eat him though, he decides to just let him go. The lion is then caught by hunters. The mouse sees this and  chews the rope the lion is caught in so that the lion can get free. They then become best friends. This book teaches about friendship to the students. They can see that just because another student is bigger than them or looks scary, they can be nice and help them just like everyone else.