Lehman, B. (2006). Museum Trip. Illus. Barbara Lehman. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Brief Annotation: A boy, who is on a museum field trip, gets lost from his class and imagines himself being in some of the exhibits as he goes by them.
Genre: Wordless Picture Book
Grade Level: Pre-K-3
Readers who will like this: Children who love to look at pictures and create their own story using their imagination.
Response/Rating (1-4): *** I enjoyed using my imagination to create dialog for this book. It allowed me to look at the pictures and see what they were telling me.
One question you would ask before a read aloud: Do you think a book can tell a story without using any words?
If you were teaching older kids, and using the book From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the picturebook you've described here would be a great introduction. In fact, it seems like this book would offer an opportunity to talk about museum field trips in advance of a class's first trip to look at art.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read this book, but I'm intrigued. It's not easy to find books for kids that really focus on the art itself.
I actually read this book to my preschoolers and they were very intrigued! They didn't grasp the idea that books could tell a story without words but they were silent throughout the entire book as I made up the dialogue and they helped me with the plot. It was a great book to read to them!
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