The purple creature maintains that the orange creature is “big” the orange one counters by calling the purple one “small.” This continues, devolving into a very funny shouting match, pages full of each type of creature hollering across the gutter.
While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee Rose and Carey Armstrong-Ellis’ The Twelve Days of Kindergarten (2003), it basically gets the job done.įuzzy, bearlike creatures of different sizes relate to one another in an amusing story that explores the relative nature of size.Ī small purple creature meets a similarly shaped but much larger orange critter.
The children in the ink, paint, and collage digital spreads show a variety of emotions, but most are happy to be at school, and the surroundings will be familiar to those who have made an orientation visit to their own schools. While the days are given ordinal numbers, the song skips the cardinal numbers in the verses, and the rhythm is sometimes off: “On the second day of kindergarten / I thought it was so cool / making lots of friends / and riding the bus to my school!” The narrator is a white brunette who wears either a tunic or a dress each day, making her pretty easy to differentiate from her classmates, a nice mix in terms of race two students even sport glasses. The typical firsts of school are here: riding the bus, making friends, sliding on the playground slide, counting, sorting shapes, laughing at lunch, painting, singing, reading, running, jumping rope, and going on a field trip. Rabe follows a young girl through her first 12 days of kindergarten in this book based on the familiar Christmas carol. Likely to be a kiss for artists-in-training but a miss for others. Bonilla’s choices are all over the map: Monica doesn’t like vegetables, most of which are green (she covers her mouth as if about to throw up in one picture), and the brown spread features chocolate, fall leaves, and dog poop. In each of the color-dedicated spreads, almost everything is pictured in the featured hue, sometimes even Monica herself. But while sweet, this answer may leave concrete-thinking readers without closure. The wordless response fills the final spread with rainbow-patterned and -colored hearts. In the end, Monica asks an expert: her mother. But there are good and bad things in each color: spaghetti-sauce red is the color of anger and people don’t give kisses when angry, and while her favorite cakes are pink, Monica does not like princesses or fairies (the black-haired white girl is dressed all in black and white). What color is a kiss? Subsequent double-page spreads consider the colors in turn: red, green, yellow, brown, white, pink, blue, and black/gray. She’s painted all sorts of things in all kinds of colors, but she’s never painted a kiss. Monica likes riding her bike, strawberry cake, and her mother’s stories, but what she loves is painting. And if it’s all too bleak, well, we've got a list of pick-me-up songs ready for you to queue up to help the healing begin.A little girl who knows her mind when it comes to what she likes is stymied when she ponders the color of a kiss. And among the 55 greatest breakup songs of all time, you're certain to find something to relate to. Adele is lurking in the shadows of her ex's place, as she is wont to do. There are indignant rappers and spiteful rockers. On this list, you'll find wounded soul singers and divas walking unbowed from the ashes of bad relationships. The best breakup songs distil raw, universal human emotions into sonic symphonies. And others… well frankly they’re a little toxic, songs about burning the very concept of love to the ground. Others are thoughtful meditations on human connection. But some are righteous cries of joy that signal the end of a bad relationship. Sadness and grief are certainly the classic ones. Okay, maybe they fit three or four simple patterns, but we’re talking some pretty radical extremes of feeling: are you happy, are you sad? Did you dump or were you dumped? Do you want them back or do you never want to see them again?īreakup anthems are complicated things that run the full gamut of emotion. Breakups songs don’t fit one simple pattern, because breakups don’t fit one simple pattern.
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