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Review by Laila_Hashem -- What's Your Favorite Color?
[Following is a volunteer review of "What's Your Favorite Color?" by Amber L Lassiter.]
What’s Your Favorite Color? by Amber L Lassiter is a children’s book that tells the story of Amber, a student whose school is holding a ‘color day’. Amber and her classmates arrive, each wearing an article of clothing in their favorite color, and are surprised to find that their teacher, Miss Lassiter, has added more colorful curtains to the windows, arranged art supplies in the middle of the room, and hung up students’ drawings on the wall. The teacher, then, asks the students to paint any item that contains their favorite color. Amber is thrilled but soon realizes that she has forgotten her colors at home. The book goes on to explain how Amber deals with her problem and how the rest of the day progresses.
The illustrations are very colorful, vivid, and done perfectly down to the last detail. I believe they would grab the attention of young readers easily and encourage them to keep reading the book. I love the fact that the book contains engaging questions, which would help readers stay focused and work on their own literacy as well since most of the activities provide space for a response. Questions that ask readers to analyze Amber’s feelings based on her body language and those that ask them to interpret the meanings of some metaphors, specifically, help children learn idioms, understand complicated emotions, and read body language, which are all lessons I believe people should learn from a young age.
There are some words that I believe could be a bit hard for children to understand such as “glistening and “teetered and tottered”, and others are art-centric such as “easels” and “crocheted cotton berets “. Having such advanced words would normally be confusing in a children’s book, but the fact that the author includes all those items and actions in the illustrations gives the children a visual aid that would help them understand any difficult words they encounter. Finally, the book was clearly professionally edited since there were very few spelling and grammatical mistakes.
The author includes two paragraphs about her editor, Traci D. Anderson, in the acknowledgment section. The first is the actual acknowledgment and the second describes Traci’s mission. Both paragraphs are identical in content and nearly in words as the author states twice that Traci has a “passion for instilling a love of life-long learning is helping to prepare children for a world we cannot even imagine,” and has “helped children develop self- confidence, learn from their own mistakes, grow spiritually as well as mentally.” This causes the second paragraph about Traci to be redundant and unnecessary. Additionally, the author used a slang, “betcha”, in the text, which, I believe, might confuse the young readers.
Due to all the aforementioned good qualities, I give this book a rating of 4 out of 4 stars. Children, ages 6 to 9 would enjoy this book with the help of an adult. I don’t believe readers who are 6 or 7 would be able to read the book without an adult due to the many analytical questions and advanced words, both of which may need extensive explaining. Children ages 8 or 9 might be able to enjoy it without an adult, but anyone older would find the plot and questions beneath their level.
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What's Your Favorite Color?
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What’s Your Favorite Color? by Amber L Lassiter is a children’s book that tells the story of Amber, a student whose school is holding a ‘color day’. Amber and her classmates arrive, each wearing an article of clothing in their favorite color, and are surprised to find that their teacher, Miss Lassiter, has added more colorful curtains to the windows, arranged art supplies in the middle of the room, and hung up students’ drawings on the wall. The teacher, then, asks the students to paint any item that contains their favorite color. Amber is thrilled but soon realizes that she has forgotten her colors at home. The book goes on to explain how Amber deals with her problem and how the rest of the day progresses.
The illustrations are very colorful, vivid, and done perfectly down to the last detail. I believe they would grab the attention of young readers easily and encourage them to keep reading the book. I love the fact that the book contains engaging questions, which would help readers stay focused and work on their own literacy as well since most of the activities provide space for a response. Questions that ask readers to analyze Amber’s feelings based on her body language and those that ask them to interpret the meanings of some metaphors, specifically, help children learn idioms, understand complicated emotions, and read body language, which are all lessons I believe people should learn from a young age.
There are some words that I believe could be a bit hard for children to understand such as “glistening and “teetered and tottered”, and others are art-centric such as “easels” and “crocheted cotton berets “. Having such advanced words would normally be confusing in a children’s book, but the fact that the author includes all those items and actions in the illustrations gives the children a visual aid that would help them understand any difficult words they encounter. Finally, the book was clearly professionally edited since there were very few spelling and grammatical mistakes.
The author includes two paragraphs about her editor, Traci D. Anderson, in the acknowledgment section. The first is the actual acknowledgment and the second describes Traci’s mission. Both paragraphs are identical in content and nearly in words as the author states twice that Traci has a “passion for instilling a love of life-long learning is helping to prepare children for a world we cannot even imagine,” and has “helped children develop self- confidence, learn from their own mistakes, grow spiritually as well as mentally.” This causes the second paragraph about Traci to be redundant and unnecessary. Additionally, the author used a slang, “betcha”, in the text, which, I believe, might confuse the young readers.
Due to all the aforementioned good qualities, I give this book a rating of 4 out of 4 stars. Children, ages 6 to 9 would enjoy this book with the help of an adult. I don’t believe readers who are 6 or 7 would be able to read the book without an adult due to the many analytical questions and advanced words, both of which may need extensive explaining. Children ages 8 or 9 might be able to enjoy it without an adult, but anyone older would find the plot and questions beneath their level.
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What's Your Favorite Color?
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