PUBLISHER: Marshall Cavendish (September 2011)
PAGES: 24
AGES: 4-8
A book review by Bookshelf Detective Kim Tomsic
WHAT IF YOUR BEST FRIEND WERE BLUE? by Vera Kochan offers a delightful way for children to learn colors while at the same time discovering it's what's inside a person that counts. The book features a yellow doctor, an orange babysitter, a blue best friend and more.
Author Vera Kochan provides sweet and simple big-concept text while iIllustrator Viviana Garofoli makes your eyes stretch wide. Her rich and captivating scenes marry the whimsical atmosphere of color with a powerful theme, "it's what's on the inside that matters."
WHAT IF YOUR BEST FRIEND WERE BLUE? is a great reading choice for the classroom. Teachers can follow up with coloring projects where their students compose their own "What if" projects (What if my brother were pink; What if my mom were silver?). The book also makes a lovely bedtime story and opens light opportunities for parents to discuss tolerance.
Whether at home or in the classroom, the fantastical charm of the cast of characters (including the green policewoman!) will have kids begging for another read of WHAT IF YOUR BEST FRIEND WERE BLUE?
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3 comments:
Excelent!
This book was sold in many places in our state. It is a very wonderful book not only to learn colors but to except people for what they are and not for color of there skin. Many adults would be smart to read it and think about there way of judging people by skin color.
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