Title: Once a Mouse…
A Fable cut in wood.
Author: Marcia Brown
Illustrator: Marcia Brown
Date of publication: 1961
Publishing Company: Charles Scribner’s Sons-- Macmillan Publishing Company
Awards: Caldecott Honor Book (1962)
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Fables
Theme: Being grateful and appreciating what another person does for you.
Primary Characters: The mouse
Secondary characters: The Hermit
Classroom Use: Good fable about appreciation and being grateful. Best to read to older students that will comprehend the fable a bit more than the little children. Could use to lead a discussion about the fable and etc.
Summary: The fable is about a hermit (man) who is thinking about big and small when he sees a little mouse in trouble. He turns the mouse into a cat to save him from being eaten/killed. He changes him into bigger animals each time to protect the little mouse from being attacked. But, the mouse, as a mighty tiger, becomes full of pride. He sees himself as the biggest and strongest beast in the jungle and strides around making sure that all the animals know. So, the hermit tells the tiger that he is ungrateful and that if it weren’t for him he would still be a mouse and perhaps even dead. The tiger gets angry and plots to kill him. However, the Hermit could read his thoughts, turns him back into a tiny mouse and sends him away into the jungle. The mouse didn’t appreciate the Hermit’s help in the correct manner and was ungrateful to him.
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