1. Type of book: Storybook, Paperback
2. Format: Paperback
3. Age: 3-4 year olds
4. Awards:
5. Brief Synopsis:
“Pinkalicious” is in art class and she is criticized by her classmates for always using pink. Her peers continue to speak their minds on the subject of most popular colors. When she gets home, Pinkalicious feels doubtful of her preference for pink. She writes in her pink diary everyday of that week as she feels sadder and sadder each day. After picking vanilla ice cream instead of her favorite pink one, and not liking it, she gets the blues. Next school day she meets a girl in art class that needs pink for her painting. She watches the girl mix colors and discovers that she likes the new color, its purplicious.
6. Interaction:
While reading this book the teacher can ask children about their favorite colors. She can share with them how we all like different things and it’s ok to be different. She can comment on the way pinkalicious’ friends tease her and ask about proper ways to talk to our friends and about each other’s feelings. Teacher can also talk about mixing colors.
7. Quality:
Character development, Aesthetic appeal: sentences and words are placed at different positions on the pages. Color: It portrays the colors its talking about on each page, Realistic dialogue: It uses words that children can relate to, Cultural insight: It points out different likes and dislikes.
8. Debrief:
1. Do you think it was ok for Pinkalicious to paint always with pink?
2. Was it ok for Pinkalicious’ friends to tell her pink is a baby color?
3. Why do you think Pinkalicious felt blue?
4. What would you tell Pinkalicious about her favorite color?
9. Activities:
Children can make a painting using their favorite color.
We can have a wear your favorite color to class day.
We can have a day when children can share a snack of their favorite color.
2. Format: Paperback
3. Age: 3-4 year olds
4. Awards:
5. Brief Synopsis:
“Pinkalicious” is in art class and she is criticized by her classmates for always using pink. Her peers continue to speak their minds on the subject of most popular colors. When she gets home, Pinkalicious feels doubtful of her preference for pink. She writes in her pink diary everyday of that week as she feels sadder and sadder each day. After picking vanilla ice cream instead of her favorite pink one, and not liking it, she gets the blues. Next school day she meets a girl in art class that needs pink for her painting. She watches the girl mix colors and discovers that she likes the new color, its purplicious.
6. Interaction:
While reading this book the teacher can ask children about their favorite colors. She can share with them how we all like different things and it’s ok to be different. She can comment on the way pinkalicious’ friends tease her and ask about proper ways to talk to our friends and about each other’s feelings. Teacher can also talk about mixing colors.
7. Quality:
Character development, Aesthetic appeal: sentences and words are placed at different positions on the pages. Color: It portrays the colors its talking about on each page, Realistic dialogue: It uses words that children can relate to, Cultural insight: It points out different likes and dislikes.
8. Debrief:
1. Do you think it was ok for Pinkalicious to paint always with pink?
2. Was it ok for Pinkalicious’ friends to tell her pink is a baby color?
3. Why do you think Pinkalicious felt blue?
4. What would you tell Pinkalicious about her favorite color?
9. Activities:
Children can make a painting using their favorite color.
We can have a wear your favorite color to class day.
We can have a day when children can share a snack of their favorite color.
-Dinorah J.
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