So much more

than just a picture book.

I don’t remember how I first discovered BECAUSE, but once I did, I had to have it.

This past Tuesday, instead of leveled readers, BECAUSE sat alone on the Guided Reading table. Waiting.

So much to talk about.

A score is the music written by a composer. Mo Willems wrote the words for this book. He is like a composer.

A performance is when a group of musicians play their instruments on stage, in front of an audience. Amber Ren drew the pictures for this book. She created a performance for us, the readers.

We quietly observed the first two pages. We drew musical notes in the air. We grabbed crayons and colored pencils and composed on half sheets of white construction paper.

Then, we listened. Some of us were musicians playing airstruments with the orchestra, while others of us were…