Lulu the Broadway Mouse by Jenna Gavigan

Lulu dreams of being of making her Broadway debut, but there’s just one sticking point… Lulu is a mouse. She lives in New York’s famed Schubert Theatre, where she and her family work side by side with the actors, actresses, and crew to help every production stay on track. Lulu is a little girl who loves, loves, LOVES the theatre. Lulu the Broadway Mouse, by Jenna Gavigan, Posted in Animal Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Middle Grade Lulu the Broadway Mouse is ready for the Great White Way! It’s a cute way to introduce scientific thinking to younger readers, and publisher Dawn Publications has a free, downloadable companion activities for kids. The tests are amusing and let caregivers and educators work with readers to reason out the conclusion. Scampers has a theory about the mouse, so she conducts some tests, considers her conclusion, and shares her results. Scampers Thinks Like a Scientist is an adorable, abbreviated introduction to an scientific method. (Have you guessed yet?) When Scampers and Nibbles figure out the owl’s secret, they let their fellow mice know: the owl isn’t real! Will the mice believe their two scientists? With the help of Scampers’s friend, Nibbles, the two proceed to conduct a few experiments, including waving a rag doll and making noise that will startle the owl, and building an egg catapault to scare it off. Scampers is a curious little mouse who wants to know what it will take to get a menacing-looking owl out of the vegetable garden, so he and the other mice can go back to getting food. Scampers Thinks Like a Scientist, by Mike Allegra/Illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel, (March 2019, Dawn Publications), $8.95, ISBN: 9781584696438

Lulu the Broadway Mouse by Jenna Gavigan