Title: A Rainbow of Friends
Author/Illustrator: P.K. Hallinan
Genre: Children’s Picture Book/Poetry
Age Group: Lower Elementary School
Rating: 5 stars
A Rainbow of Friends is the ideal classroom read for a lower elementary school classroom. The illustrations are child-like and filled with vivid colors and shading, and depict perfectly what the text reads while adding addition information such as character emotion. The story is also a poem, as it rhymes all the way through from page to page. It is about the importance of having friends from all different races, backgrounds, interests, etc. This is an extremely important message for people of all ages, thus there are great benefits of reading this aloud to a classroom. It is short and concise, but gets the message across, and provides the reader with a light and happy mood. Overall, I think this is the perfect book for a classroom setting.
I really like your description of this book! I think I am going to have to get this and try to use it with my reading buddy! I think the poetry and its child like drawings might spark her interest.
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