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Color Your World...Pink!

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Pink is a fun summer color.  It's sweet like cotton candy and bubble gum.  It stands graceful as a flamingo.  Almost every type of flower is available in a shade of pink.  Pink is the color of the inside of many seashells.  Notice all of the pink in your world.

 

 

Play Time

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Reading Time

Picture Books | Fiction | Nonfiction

Picture Books

Salile Orr.  Barbie:  One Pink Shoe

Barbie and friends count to ten and talk about their day.

Garth Williams.  Benjamin's Treasure

A rabbit gets stranded on a deserted island with a trunk full of treasure and must find his way home.

Rosemary Wells.  Bubble-Gum Radar

When the Franks hurt, bother, tease, trip, trick, act up, bully, and joke their way through the school day, they push away all of their classmates. This is no laughing matter, especially when Mrs. Jenkins announces square-dance practice time.

James Skofield.  Detective Dinosaur:  Lost and Found

After Detective Dinosaur and Officer Pterodactyl find a missing baby wearing pink diapers and a home for Cadet Kitty, they lose and rediscover each other.

Marsha Diane Arnold.  Edward G. and the Beautiful Pink Hairbow

When her neighborhood friends come over for their weekly meeting to trade things, Evelyn finds that Cynthia Lucinda will trade her pink hairbow for Evelyn's cute but demanding baby brother.

Wong Herbert Lee.  Fireman Small:  Fire Down Below

Having gone to the Pink Hotel to get some sleep, Fireman Small detects a fire there and saves its animal guests.

Valrie M. Selkowe.  Happy Birthday to Me!

Through a garden, inside a great pink house, a child discovers a wonderful birthday celebration.

Juanita Havill. Jamaica and Brianna

Jamaica hates wearing hand-me-down boots when her friend Brianna has pink fuzzy ones.

Mandy Stanley.  Lettice the Flying Rabbit

Lettice Rabbit wishes she could fly, and her dream comes true when she encounters a pink toy airplane.

Pat Hutchins.  Little Pink Pig

When it is time for bed, a little pink pig lags behind as his mother asks the horse, cow, sheep, and hens to help her find her child.

Jan Karon.  Miss Fannie's Hat

When ninety-nine-year-old Miss Fannie gives up her favorite pink straw hat with the roses, to help raise money for her church, she receives an unexpected reward.

Teddy O'Connor.  A New Brain for Igor

A mad scientist's dim-witted assistant tries to force his master into giving him a bigger brain by stealing the scientist's fuzzy pink slippers.

Vladimir Radunsky.  #1 (One):  a Nice Story About an Awful

Braggart   When Six, a pink armadillo with nine green siblings, brags that he is "#1" in everything, his family expresses a different opinion.

Ophelia Dumas Lachtman.  Pepita Thinks Pink--Rosita y el color

rosado   Pepita does not like the color pink and is dismayed to learn that it is the favorite color of the pink little girl who moves in next door.

Ezra Jack Keats.  Peter's Chair

When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.

Patricia Polacco.  Pink and Say

Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops.

Virginia L. Kroll.  Pink Paper Swans

Janetta, intrigued by the paper animals her neighbor Mrs. Tsujimoto makes, learns the art of origami and becomes Mrs. Tsujimoto's hands when her arthritis makes it difficult for her to continue.

Jan Day.  Pirate, Pink

Pink, the daughter of the fierce pirate Red Beard, becomes a pirate as well and charts her own destiny.

Linda Jennings.  Scramcat

A scrappy street cat's life changes one day when he climbs through an open window and falls asleep in a cozy pink chair.

William Steig.  Yellow and Pink

Two painted wooden figures argue about where they came from, whether they just happened by accident or were created by some other being.

Quentin Blake.  Zagazoo

The postman brings George and Bella a delightful pink creature, who suddenly turns into a vulture, a warthog, a dragon, a hairy monster, and other destructive and annoying creatures.

 

Fiction

Debbie Dadey.  Gremlins Don't Chew Bubble Gum

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the substitute school secretary really be a gremlin messing up the electricity? The Bailey School kids are going to find out!

Marion Engle.  Heather and the Pink Poodles

The magic attic sends Heather to a televised talent contest in the 1950s, where she performs with a singing group called the Pink Poodles.

Charles Haddad.  Meet Calliope Day

Determined to get back the pink fangs which her teacher took from her in school one day, nine-year-old Calliope needs first of all to win over the "witch" next door.

Joan Aiken.  Nightbirds on Nantucket

Young Dido Twite, her friend Dutiful Penitence, and a Nantucket boy named Nate help unravel a mystery involving Dutiful's treacherous Aunt Tribulation, a sinister conspiracy, and an elusive pink whale.

Debbie Dadey.  Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses

At Camp Lone Wolf, the Bailey kids suspect that the camp director is a werewolf. What's more, the newest member of the camp staff, Captain Teach, thinks he's a pirate.

Ben Baglio.  Racing the Wind

Jody has arrived in the South American rain forest, desperate to see some botos--amazing, bubble-gum-pink river dolphins. She has heard that when the river floods the forest, these magical creatures can be seen swimming between the trees!

Tracey West.  Secret of the Pink Pokemon

The second of three exciting new adventures on the Orange Islands.

Lawrence David.  The Terror of the Pink Dodo Balloons

Little Horace Splattly, alias the Cupcaked Crusader, hopes to become Celernip Prince at the Celernip Festival, keep his best friends, win the love of Sara Willow, cope with his talented scientist sister, and figure out who is creating the pink dodo balloons that are making people bald.

 

Nonfiction

Judy Alter.  Amusement Parks:  Roller Coasters, Ferris Wheels, and

Cotton Candy   Chronicles the development of amusement parks in America, from state fairs to the Columbia Exposition and parks such as Coney Island and on to the giant theme parks of today.

Barbie Fun to Make Activity Book

Instructions and photographs for projects such as making paper flowers and jewelry, featuring special tips from Barbie.

Lee Wardlaw.  Bubblemania:  a Chewy History of Bubble Gum

Discusses bubble gum, including important people in the world of bubble gum, its invention and history, how it is manufactured and sold today, and gives advice on how to blow really great bubbles.

Sy Montgomery.  Encantado:  Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

Introduces the world of the freshwater dolphins called Encantados, or Enchanted, by the people who live near them in the region of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in South America.

Joan Hewett.  A Flamingo Chick Grows Up

Readers are given the chance to watch as a baby flamingo grows up.

Nadine Bernard Westcott.  Never Take a Pig to Lunch:  Poems

About the Fun of Eating   A collection of poems and traditional rhymes about food and eating.

Mary Ling.  Pig

Photographs and text chart the early stages of a young pig 's life.

Mike Downs.  Pig Giggles and Rabbit Rhymes:  a Book of Animal

Riddles   Presents more than twenty simple animal jokes.

Jennifer Dussling.  Pink Snow and Other Weird Weather

Have you ever seen a hailstone with a turtle frozen inside? Learn all about the weirdest, wackiest, wildest weather ever--and what makes it happen.

Judy Hindley.  A Song of Colors

An illustrated collection of poems describing all sorts of items that represent shades of colors from red, yellow, and green to pink, brown, and white.

Jose Marti.  Los Zapaticos de Rosa

In this poem, young Pilar, adorned with feathered-hat and pink shoes, accompanies her mother to the beach. Pilar encounters a poor woman with a sickly child and gives the child her cherished shoes.