Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse was written by Leo Lionni. It was published by Scholastic Inc. in New York in 1969. It has won honors such as the Caldecott Honor and a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year award. This is good literature for grades K-2.
This book is considered a modern fantasy or animal fantasy because the main characters are talking mice. Lionni's anthropomorphic characters made the reader sympathetic to them just as we would be to a human's feelings in a story. The story ends with an implicit moral: Be thankful for who you are no matter what.
R.L 1.4. Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
After reading this book aloud to the class, use these questions from the link to help explain vocabulary from the story:
http://www.freereading.net/index.php?title=Introduce_Vocabulary:_Alexander_and_the_Wind-Up_Mouse_(Lionni)
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