Tillie and the Wall (Read to a Child!: Level 2)

by Leo Lionni

Paperback, 1991

Status

Available

Call number

482

Collection

Publication

Dragonfly Books (1991), Edition: Reissue, 32 pages

Description

Unlike the other mice, who are incurious about the wall that has always been part of their world, Tillie is determined to find out what lies on the other side of the wall.

User reviews

LibraryThing member RobertaRogers
This story is about a field of mice who never talk about, or wonder about the wall they live by. Tillie the young mouse would stare at the wall and wonder about the other side. Her friends and herself tryed to climb the wall, drill a peep hole with a rusty nail, and they tried to walk to the end of
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the wall. Then one day Tillie saw a worm diging in the ground and thats when it hit her, if she wanted to get to the other side she was going to have to dig her way. Once she reached the other side she saw that there were mice just like her. They threw her a party and then followed her back to her side. When they arrived they threw another party chanting Tillie's name.

I really enjoyed this story. It had me trying to come up with ways for Tillie to get to the other side of the wall and I also was trying to imagine what was on the other side.

This would be a good short story to read aloud. You can have the student guess what was on the other side or even have them come up with ways to get over the wall.
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LibraryThing member conuly
This is a sweet story (most of Lionni's stories are sweet, aren't they?) about a mouse and... well, yes, a wall : )

She works hard to get over the wall, or around the wall, or through the wall... until finally she realizes she can go UNDER it, and she's hailed as a hero for ever.

I don't know why
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Lionni's stories are so good, there's not much too them, but they... they last.
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LibraryThing member alv003
A mouse (Tillie) wonders what is on the other side of the great wall and decides to find out, after digging under it she realizes that on the other side are mice just like her.
LibraryThing member NMiller22
Tillie longs to know what is on the other side of the wall. One day she finds a way to get there, and her discovery opens new worlds to many others.

Subjects

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

10.34 inches

ISBN

0679813578 / 9780679813576
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