Author: Peter H. Reynolds
Illustrator: Peter H. Reynolds
Awards: none
Grade level: K-3rd
This book is about a young girl named Marisol who loves to paint! One day, her teacher asks the class to make a mural for the library, and Marisol says she will paint the sky! She runs over to the paint bucket only to discover there is no blue color for the sky. As she's heading home on the bus, she looks at the sky and notices all different colors. All throughout the night and morning, she is looking at the sky and embracing all the beautiful colors. She rushes to the mural and begins painting all of the beautiful colors she saw, and in the end, she says that the color she used is called "sky color".
I love this book and will definitely have it in my classroom! It shows how all of the different students in a class come together and create a mural for the library. A good grade for this is K-3rd because it would be a good read-aloud for young students, and older students can definitely read the text on their own. In my class, I would read this book and encourage students to think outside the box and come together and create an in-class mural.
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