AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Robert Munsch/Sheila McGraw
PUBLISHER: Firefly Books PUBLICATION
DATE: 1986
AWARDS: National Education Association's "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children," Publishers Weekly's "All-Time Best Selling Children's Books" listGENRE: Classic READING
LEVEL: 1st grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: A boy goes through stages of his life. His mother sneaks into his room while he is sleeping and sings a song about love. Eventually, the mother gets too old to sing to him, but then he sings it to her.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will write a paragraph about something that has been passed down to them. For example, a necklace from a grandmother or a song from an aunt.
LABELS: classic, love
