{"id":8057,"date":"1997-03-04T13:44:08","date_gmt":"1997-03-04T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=8057"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:39:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:39:33","slug":"seven-blind-mice-by-ed-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/seven-blind-mice-by-ed-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young [in What Do I Read Next? 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Young&#8217;s version also won him a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/caldecottmedal\/caldecotthonors\/caldecottmedal.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1993 Caldecott Honor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1992<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7023\" title=\"Seven Blind Mice\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/seven-blind-mice.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Blind Mice\" width=\"129\" height=\"142\" \/>Six of the seven blind mice identity the parts of an elephant \u2013 the leg, the trunk, the tusk, etc. \u2013 never realizing that these parts make up a whole. Not until the seventh blind mouse explores the &#8220;something&#8221; as a whole being do the rest of the mice  finally &#8220;see&#8221; the elephant.<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to the prodigiously talented Ed Young to add a clever twist on an original Indian fable in which seven blind men identify the parts of an elephant without ever realizing the whole animal. Young&#8217;s version also won him a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/caldecottmedal\/caldecotthonors\/caldecottmedal.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">1993 Caldecott Honor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1992<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21,6,6535],"tags":[6608,1671,438,64,5587,4867],"class_list":["post-8057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-picture-books","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-ed-young","tag-folklore-legend-myth","tag-pets-animals","tag-seven-blind-mice","tag-what-do-i-read-next-multicultural-literature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young [in What Do I Read Next? 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