Book Review: A Colorful Beginning (first day of school)(OT)

A Colorful Beginning, by Raven Howell (Black Rose Writing, 2022, 32pp, $14.95 PB) Review by Skye Anderson

A Little Book with a Big Punch

A colorful beginning is like the first day of school for all the colors - the orange cat, the white mouse, the green frog, and more. All the colorful animals are a bit jittery when they meet for the first time to learn: but their teacher, Mr. Mole, understands first day jitters. So, he gives each student-animal their very own color and asks them to blend their colors. In doing so, the animals make friends and learn that together, they are better. The yellow butterfly and the red ladybug get together and together they make a great team - a beautiful orange team!

What a lovely way to ease the jitters of the first day of school where nobody knows anyone else yet they come together to make friends and learn the friendship is like the saying, 'the whole is more than the sum of the parts.'

If only we could remember that lesson for the rest of our lives. Now, with A Colorful Beginning that we teach our children, maybe we too can remember it!

Bonus

Sounds like flip, flap, flick (peacock) and flitter, flutter, flick (butterfly) and . . . .