36 // Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue / Maurice Sendak

Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue / Maurice Sendak

• HarperCollins

• 1962

• A story / with a moral air / about Pierre, / who learned / to care. - From Amazon

• Group read-aloud - chorus reading. Assign parts - Mother, Father, Lion - and the rest of the class reads the refrain.

• I love the refrain of "I don't care" in this story - I can see listeners picking it up and repeating it along with Pierre in a read-aloud! Normally, moralistic tales are not-so-great - but Sendak executes this cheekily with a note of absurd humor!