Tickled Pink: How Friendship Washes the World with Color by Andree Poulin, illustrated by Lucile Danis Drout. PICTURE BOOK. Pajama Press, 2020. $19. 9781772781045
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Filippo the flamingo wants to play with the panda and zebra, but they reject Filippo because he is pink. At first Filippo tries to find ways to fit in - like painting black onto his feathers - but nothing seems to work. Then another black and white animal steps in to be Filippo’s friend and everything seems better again.
Poulin spends a lot of time beating the others’ rejection of Filippo over our heads and very little on adding color to the world with friendship, making the point of the very long title fall flat.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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