“Norman the Doorman” by Don Freeman is one of my favourite picture books. My children also loved it when they were little, and I read it to them many times.
As I’m purging homeschooling records, I’ve been recycling lots of notebooks. But you have to remove the wire binding or the paper won’t end up being recycled.
It’s such a lovely story. Norman is a mouse who is a doorman at an art museum. He gives other mice tours of the art. His only concern is the “sharp-eyed guard” who sets traps.
In his spare time, Norman loves to make sculptures from wires that he collects from mouse traps, after carefully removing the cheese.
One day he sees an advertisement for a sculpture contest, and decides he would like to enter. He uses the wire from the traps to make a mouse on a trapeze. But his sculpture needs a title, so he grabs the letters “eese” from a cheese wrapper, and glues it beside the word “trap” on the trap itself, which is the base for his sculpture. And the “trapeese” sculpture is born.
I won’t spoil the end for you; it’s worth borrowing if your library has a copy
You are a master at reusing items. This is so neat. You captured a t lot of movement in it.
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Cindy
(🇨🇦 … keeping my Joy in a chaotic world …)
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Please be careful doing this! I homeschooled both our sons K-12. I kept special stories they had written and pictures they’d drawn in binders. After we moved across Canada, they were no where to be found I missing 4 items that I’m sure were all in the same box … their binders, a special book about drawing and my recorder from middle school. I’m so sad and we can’t figure out what happened to that box. So be totally sure you know what you’re getting rid of.
