By Norma Landa and Tim Warnes
Published in 2010
I couldn't help but smile when I read this book. It all starts when duck hears a noise under her bed going "pshh pshh." She then tells pig, who tells bear, who tells wolf, who tells owl, and by the end the noise under the bed sounds like this "psh pshh, grrr, bang bang, wham wham, grrrowl, ooooooo." Just your classic but adorable story of how things can change from the truth when traveling by word of mouth. At the end my favorite part when they are about to trap this horrible monster under the bed they look and it is only a mouse!
This story could be used to show how rumors are spread, or how when we tell each other a story we heard sometimes we change it without even knowing it. Just look how the sound developed throughout the book. This could be used for young or older children alike. A follow-up activity that would be fun is having them play telephone. Give them a message to pass around and see how much it changes by the end!
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