If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Illustrator: Felicia Bond
Theme: Every Action has a Consequence
Genre: Children's Literature
Age: Pre-School and up
Synopsis: This book is a sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. It is written as a funny sequence of events that may occur if you were to give your guest, a moose, a muffin.
I loved both this book and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as a child and remember writing our own versions of this story when I was in elementary school.
Pre-Reading Activity: Before reading this book, talk with you class about what a moose is, because depending on where you live your students might not know what a moose is and this discuss might help them to relate the the story more. After you have discussed what a moose is, ask your students what they think that a moose might eat. Make a list of these things up on the board.
Post Reading Activity: Now it is the student's turn to make their own story, written as a sequence of events as this story is. Have the students each pick an animal and what they are going to feed this animal. Go over the process that they will need to use to write this story with them.
Author: Laura Numeroff is the author and illustrator of a number of children's books. As a child she was an avid reader and at the age of 9 she decided that she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. However when it was time to apply for college she decided rather to follow her older sister and go to school for fashion. Her dreams quickly changed though and decided to go back to her dream of being a writer. She wrote and illustrated her first 9 children's books. But when she wrote her tenth book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie her editor hired Felicia Bond to illustrate her book, and since then she has not illustrated any other books.
Numeroff, L. (1991). If You Give a Moose a Muffin. New York: HarperCollins. Grades Preschool +.
This is such a fun book! I like your idea of having the students write their own version of this book. I think students would really enjoy doing this!
ReplyDeleteIn my classroom we have read "if you give a mouse a cookie" and "if you give a pig a pancake". I think they would really enjoy keeping with the theme and using this book and I also love your activity ideas. good find!
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