Parade

Rating:
Summary: love this book
Review: My 18-month-old daughter loves this book. The simple story builds with just the right amount of aniticipation and the illustrations build right along with it. Great book for a girl or boy.

Rating:
Summary: love this book
Review: My 18-month-old daughter loves this book. The simple story builds with just the right amount of aniticipation and the illustrations build right along with it. Great book for a girl or boy.

Rating:
Summary: Racial harmony in exciting parade!
Review: This is a favorite young kids' book of mine. Kids will find it appealing for its vibrant and bold illustrations, as well as how it creates a sense of expectancy for the excitement of a parade.

But there's another reason to admire this book. I love the way Donald Crews gets a message of racial harmony across is such a subtle, matter-of-fact way. He uses bright colors to illustrate the parade, and, alternatively -- just about every shade of skin tone you can imagine for the paraders and spectators. Faces of deep chestnut are right besides those of yellow-tan, joined with pale cream and light mahagony. Nothing about race is stated in the text, but to the perceptive eyes of young children, the beauty of having many parade colors -- and skin colors-- is obvious.