Title: Coconut Kind of Day
Author: Lynn Joseph
Illustrator: Sandra Speidel
Publisher: Puffin Books, 1990
Genre: poetry
Age Range:Upper elementary
Summary: This book is a collection of poems from a little girl's prospective about different people/ things in her life. She writes about her brother, mother, teacher, a snail she sees, steel drums, "red wonder" (the sun), and songs about night. Most poems use the girl's native language to show her diversity.
Personal Response: This book would be good to use in the classroom to show diversity. Some children may relate to this if they have a different background other that caucasian.
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