Book # 22
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Plant a Kiss.
By Amy Krouse Rosenthall. Illus. Peter H. Reynolds.
2012. 40p. Harper, $14.99. (9780061986758).
Preschool - Gr2
Genre:
Fiction
Awards:
None listed.
Topics/Issues:
Love, sharing, kiss
ELS promoted:
Print awareness, phonological awareness, print motivation
Format:
Hardcover.
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E Rosenthal
Annotation:
One small act of love blooms into something bigger and more dazzling than Little Miss could have ever imagined.
Reactions/Observations:
Little Miss plants a kiss and carefully attends to it. The kiss grows into a golden ribbon of glitter which I could only interpret as love and happiness. She shares it with her friends, but they tell her to keep it safe and keep it to herself so she doesn't run out. Against their wishes, she gathers the love and shares it with everyone everywhere until she runs out.
Rosenthall weaves a charming tale about what happiness and love can grow from a little kiss. The illustrators are simple yet expressive, but reflect the warmth in the yellow undertones. The story is told in rhyme in short sentences and interjections. Without the details of Little Miss' facial expressions, you would lose a lot of what was going on in the story. The author does not identify what exactly grows from the kiss, but you get the gist of it by the response in expressions from the other characters. The glitter gets a response out of the audience, but the abstract nature of what's growing would make this book more appropriate for an older end of the 0-4 spectrum. Preschool would be the ideal age group to share this book with.
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