The Pineapple Pages

 Author: Richard Jackson Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney Awards: Coretta King Scott Award Ages: Kindergarten-3rd Grade Pineapple Points: 3/5 🍍🍍🍍 Summary: Everyday a little girl comes home to her Grandpa who has hidden an item in plan sight for her to find. Everyday the little girl finds it. On Sunday, the little girl decides to hide herself for her Grandpa to find. A joyful story about a Grandpa creating a game to spend time with his granddaughter. Evaluation: This book would be great for a read aloud. The children could learn sequencing through this book. It could be the introduction to a sequencing lesson. It is relevant to elementary children and is a simple but fun story with beautiful illustrations. Nothing less to be expected of Jerry Pinkney.

Author: Kelly Starling Lyons Illustrator: Daniel Minter Awards: Coretta Scott King Award Ages: Kindergarten- 3rd Grade Pineapple Points: 3/5 🍍🍍🍍 Summary:       A narrative rendition of the Cohabition Act of 1866, Ellen's Broom uses a touching fictional story to inform readers about the marriage recognition of former Virginian slaves. Before, slaves marriages were not acknowledged. A tradition for these suppressed slaves was to jump over a broom to signify a "jumping into life together" and a marriage of two people inn the eyes of God. Ellen, a child of former slaves, was able to witness the legal marriage of her parents. With a rising fight to end racial injustices, a tradition to celebrate a union is kept alive, despite legal advances, to commemorate the past and its traditions. Evaluation:      Ellen's broom is a beautifully simplistic children's book that celebrates an advancement in African American rights. This would be a great book to i...