Bibliographic Information (APA): Lehman, B. (2006). The Museum Trip. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Brief Annotation: In this book a boy goes on a Museum trip with his school. While he is tying his shoe his class leaves and he is suddenly all alone in the museum. He looks everywhere for them, and still cannot find them. He stumbles across a set of small mazes in an exhibit and imagines himself inside of them, trying to get to the object in the middle of the mazes. He tries a few of them and eventually gets inside the building on the inside of the maze. He stays in there for a while and is awarded a medal around his neck. When he comes out he finds his classmates, and sees that everyone employee in the museum is also wearing the same medal.
Genre: Wordless Picture Book
Grade Level: Pre-K-K
Readers who will like this: Pre-reading children who like to use their imagination to tell the story. Also students who can already read but still like to make the words up to stories on their own.
Response/Rating (1-4): I really enjoyed this story. I was surprised at how well I was able to follow the story without any words. The illustrator did a very good job at portraying emotions and movement through the pictures.
One question you would ask before a read aloud: What kinds of things do you think this boy will learn on his trip to the museum?
Kids who like wordless books, even when they CAN read, are probably ripe for graphic novels. Just an FYI and something to look out for when you're trying to match kids with just right books.
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