Now while the main message promoted with and in Seven Blind Mice is of course that one needs to know, to be aware of, to understand the various parts to comprehend and appreciate the whole and this then vice versa, Seven Blind Mice might also be used to familiarise young children with basic colour patterns, the seven days of the week, as well as the numbers form one to seven. He gave this 3 stars.īoth very much fun and also engagingly informative, Ed Young's Seven Blind Mice is in my opinion most perfectly suited for joyful and engaging entertainment but it also contains a seeming multitude of important teachables. Why are they feeling something different? The last page where we see all the mice at different parts of the elephant he got it. He kept asking what it was they were feeling. The nephew wasn’t bored, so that’s something.

She thought it was funny what all the mice thought the elephant was. The last mouse is the one to finally put it all together. It’s a brilliant use of color in my mind. We see the mouse on a part of the elephant, but we only see this brownish shape that they touch and then we see what they think it is like a snake or a cliff in the color of that mouse. Each mouse is a different color and the background is total black and the tails of the mice each stand out. Seeing the whole picture is the key to helping a person heal. I love the moral stated so beautifully in this book: “ Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.” Acupuncture is a wholistic medicine and so we spoke of this idea and parable often in our program with the 4 mice. They each feel a part of an Elephant, but they are blind you see so they each get different impressions of what the thing is. There are 7 mice here and I usually hear the moral told as 4 mice. As far as I know, it comes from the Buddha.

Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young