Polacco, P.(1992). Chicken sunday. New York: Scholastic.
Patricia Polacco is one of my favorite authors of children's literature. She always addresses diversity in her books in more than one way. Chicken Sunday is just one of her many books that teaches that we can love others from different religions, ages, and cultures. In this book a young Slavic girl becomes like family to Miss Eula, an African-American grandmother and her two grandsons. The theme of this book teaches children that love can break down barriers of culture and color.
In this book, Easter is coming and the children want to buy Miss Eula a pink Easter bonnet from a local hat maker's store. The children check the price of the bonnet and realize that they can't afford to purchase it, and decide to ask Mr. Kondinski if they can pay for it by doing odd and end jobs around his store. Before they get the chance to ask, he accuses them of egging his store. Instead of getting angry they give him a gift of Pysansky Eggs. The gift makes him realize they are good children, and he allows them to sell their eggs in his store. In the end the students offer to pay for the hat, but he gives it to them instead.
This book reminds me of the community of a small town like I live in. Although, we do not have the diversity in the book, people still do good deeds for one another. This book is great to read in my school because of the lack of diversity in our town.
Patricia Polacco is one of my favorite authors of children's literature. She always addresses diversity in her books in more than one way. Chicken Sunday is just one of her many books that teaches that we can love others from different religions, ages, and cultures. In this book a young Slavic girl becomes like family to Miss Eula, an African-American grandmother and her two grandsons. The theme of this book teaches children that love can break down barriers of culture and color.
In this book, Easter is coming and the children want to buy Miss Eula a pink Easter bonnet from a local hat maker's store. The children check the price of the bonnet and realize that they can't afford to purchase it, and decide to ask Mr. Kondinski if they can pay for it by doing odd and end jobs around his store. Before they get the chance to ask, he accuses them of egging his store. Instead of getting angry they give him a gift of Pysansky Eggs. The gift makes him realize they are good children, and he allows them to sell their eggs in his store. In the end the students offer to pay for the hat, but he gives it to them instead.
This book reminds me of the community of a small town like I live in. Although, we do not have the diversity in the book, people still do good deeds for one another. This book is great to read in my school because of the lack of diversity in our town.
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