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This Caldecott Award Winning book is a great choice for a RA in the classroom. It‘s a story that shows why we should be thankful for what we have & stay humble no matter how big you have become. This book could also tie into the food cycle, since we see the relationship between small animals being hunted by big ones. This MF book would be best taught using UDL principles 3.2(highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, & relationships)

Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown is a great RA option for our younger students. This book is a RF picture book that has won a Caldecott award. Once a Mouse is a story about a man who turns a mouse into bigger and bigger animals to help them. Once the mouse becomes a tiger, he begins to become ungrateful for everything the man has done for him.

“The tiger felt shameful, and in the end he became a frightened mouse again.“

This book made me think about when I was a child and I would try to show off my accomplishments or something extremely cool that I had which nobody else I knew did. One thing I never thought about was that even though the things I had technically belonged to me, I would not have had them if it were not for my parents, or friends that had given them to me

“... the hermit was mighty at magic as well as prayer.”

The ending of the story would likely be confusing to young readers.

Once a Mouse is a Caldecott story written by Marcia Brown. The characters include a hermit and a mouse along with many other animals that stop by the mouse. The setting takes place in a forrest. The hermit continued to protect his pet mouse from predators by believing in him and changing him into stronger animals!

Once a Mouse is an Indian fable retold by Marcia Brown. This book one the Caldecott award! This TL story would be great for S or DR! In this story, an old hermit has the power to change a mouse into a cat, dog, and tiger! I think children would have fun acting out the different animals in this book. The downside is there aren‘t a lot of resources to go along with this book. However, I did find a story map that goes along with this book.

No one shall tell me that I was once a mouse. I will kill him

This scene shows that the man wants to help the mouse, but later he probably shouldn't have helped the mouse.

Caldecott and was written in 1961. This book sends out a great message that we need to be grateful for things or what people do for us. The book begins with an old man thinking and out of nowhere a mouse is running for its life. Other animals try to attach the animal but the old man changes the mouse time and time again until he's a tiger. However when he's a tiger is ungrateful for it and the old man changes him back to a mouse.

“No one should tell me I was once a mouse, I will kill you” -tiger

This would be a great book to sit down and read with a child in your lap.

The hermit saw a mouse about to be snatched by a crow. He hurried to help it. Animals came to get the mouse throughout the story!
-Caldecott

It is easy to to let power take over, but it is important to not get carried away with it. Once A Mouse by Marcia Brown exemplifies this statement by telling a story of an itty bitty mouse who, over time, transforms into a majestic tiger who gets carried away with the power he was given. This book would be great as a DR because your students will be able to bring the characters and plot to life and can better understand the moral of the story.

F: This winner of the Caldecott Medal for Illustration would be a great choice for storytelling. The book sends an important message to the readers. Always remember where you came from and stay humble. You never know when it is all going to be taken away from you. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/doesn-have-that-u.... #UCFLAE3414SP18