
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. >With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. You can be good to one another not because you expect anything in return but just because you are friends.Ĭorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng, one of the great creative teams in picture books, have fun in this simple and never-didactic story about how it’s possible to get along through negotiation, acceptance and learning to put up with a friend’s eccentricities.

“If you let me go, I might be able to return the favor.” The lion laughs at the idea of such a small, insignificant creature helping him out … until the next day when the mouse frees the lion from a hunter’s trap. Before the lion can eat him for breakfast, the mouse begs for mercy. One day, the mouse marches into the lion’s den without an invitation. Funny, fresh and very modern, this update on the fable of the lion and the mouse is a marvelous tale of a relationship between two unlikely friends.
