"Flora and the Flamingo", by Molly Idle
A cherry blossom color book caught my attention from the library's shelf. During skimming through, it is a wordless book but yet the words can be understood by the illustrations' detailed body language, descriptions of location, facial expressions, and many more. In general, the young readers are highly encouraged to read this wordless book because it will sharpen and deepen their critical thinking and comprehension skills. While figuring out for the absence of words, they are to make interferences what will happen next. Back to the story, Flora decides to follow and imitate a flamingo's every move as it changes a body movement differently. Without having her seen, she continues to dance. Until a flamingo as a dance instructor does a challenging move, Flora fails and gives up. Then a flamingo greets her to join her to dance together in perfect harmony as a great friendship.
Such an inspiring story to recognize the importance of friendship is. This book has met three out of six elements. Self-love and knowledge: Flora is passionate to learn about the attractiveness of a flamingo with its body movements. She is pretty brave to step out from her comfort zone to meet a new face and learn something new. A new face can be either a person or animal. The second element is respect for others: In the beginning, a flamingo's attitude is to test if Flora is capable of following her dance moves exceptionally. But later, a flamingo realizes that she can be a great company to dance with. Blossoming a new friendship leads their joyous day of spending time dancing endlessly. The third one element is Awareness Rising: it is so important for students to be aware how to treat people equally besides their capabilities and incapabilities.
Great post, I didn't realize how to actually find those elements in a wordless book but that is great. Sounds like a wonderful book to show children and use ASL in the classroom :)
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this post, it seems like this is a picture book without words? If so, then it is a valuable book for several reasons. For one, I believe it shows that "action speak louder than words" and that our body language sends messages. This is an important lesson for young children to understand! Good post.
ReplyDeleteI love how this book relies heavily on color scheme. The flow of it is great and very eye-pleasing, and I am sure that its bright color will attract all sorts of readers!
ReplyDeleteI also agree that this book will introduce students to the concept of friendship :)
I love how this book relies heavily on color scheme. The flow of it is great and very eye-pleasing, and I am sure that its bright color will attract all sorts of readers!
ReplyDeleteI also agree that this book will introduce students to the concept of friendship :)
After looking at the picture and your post, I can defeintly can that this book is very catchy to want to read this book. I think this book gives a powerful lesson to students in the classroom and lets students learn why there are not a lot of words in the book because based on reading and glancing over the book, you can't judge by pictures, and this shows that actions also speak louder than words and how friendship should be because some students face how to become friends with one another so this book was a great choice.
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