Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed
Author: Mo Willems

Ages: K-2

Rating: 3 Stars

Summary: Naked mole rats are not supposed to wear clothes, plain and simple. However, one mole rat in particular loves wearing clothes, but this makes all the other mole rats angry so they go to Grand-pah, a wise, old mole rat, to see what he thinks about their dilemma.

The naked mole rat has a creative way of saying that it is okay to be different and sometimes what other people think about you does not matter. He loves wearing clothing stands up for himself and wears clothes because he enjoys them. While the others are angry about this, telling on him to the wise old mole rat gets them nowhere. I really enjoy Mo Willems work as both and author and an illustrator because the pictures are so fun to look at and the words in his books are usually really fun to read, as well. There is always an exciting new story while reading books by Mo Willems.

This book can help explain to younger students how it is important to be an individual. Setting up lessons based around this book can help students understand how they can be unique and not have to follow in everyone else’s footsteps just because it is what everyone thinks is expected.