Babymouse For President, Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm

Babymouse for President is a graphic novel.  It is written like a comic book but it is long enough to be considered a novel.  Babymouse for President is about a mouse who is running for school president.  The book takes her through the journey of announcing that she was running, making posters and promises to people, participating in a debate with other candidates, and all the way to the election day.  It talks about platforms and qualities that candidates take.  This is a great book that can teach students a lot about the election process.

There are many ways that you could use Babymouse for President in the classroom.  It is an essential book to use when teaching about elections because it teaches students about the process in a way that they can relate to.  I would use the book to teach about math because it talks about counting the votes in order to see who wins and ranking the candidates in order of the voting results.  I would use this book to teach about writing and an activity I would do would be to have students write a new page in the book and make sure it relates to elections, illustrate it, and use speech bubbles.  Babymouse for President is a great book that is used to integrate many different subjects and is a book that I will have in my classroom library.