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Color Your World...Pink!
Play
Time | Craft Time | Reading
Time

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
Craft Time
Reading Time
Picture
Books | Fiction | Nonfiction
Picture Books
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Salile
Orr. Barbie:
One Pink Shoe
Barbie and friends
count to ten and talk about their day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Valrie M. Selkowe.
Happy
Birthday to Me!
Through a garden,
inside a great pink house, a child discovers a wonderful birthday
celebration.
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Juanita Havill. Jamaica
and Brianna
Jamaica hates wearing
hand-me-down boots when her friend Brianna has pink fuzzy ones.
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Mandy Stanley.
Lettice
the Flying Rabbit
Lettice Rabbit wishes
she could fly, and her dream comes true when she encounters
a pink toy airplane.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jan Day. Pirate,
Pink
Pink, the daughter
of the fierce pirate Red Beard, becomes a pirate as well and
charts her own destiny.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fiction
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Tracey West.
Secret
of the Pink Pokemon
The second of three
exciting new adventures on the Orange Islands.
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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.
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Nonfiction
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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.
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Barbie
Fun to Make Activity Book
Instructions and
photographs for projects such as making paper flowers and jewelry,
featuring special tips from Barbie.
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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.
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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.
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Joan Hewett.
A
Flamingo Chick Grows Up
Readers are given
the chance to watch as a baby flamingo grows up.
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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.
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Mary Ling. Pig
Photographs and text
chart the early stages of a young pig 's life.
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Mike Downs. Pig
Giggles and Rabbit Rhymes: a Book of Animal
Riddles
Presents more than twenty simple animal jokes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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