Dinner at Aunt Connie's House

by Faith Ringgold

Book Overview

Tash wants her mum to remarry, preferably someone handsome and rich with a large house. When her friends are let in on her secret wish, they try to make her dream come true. But Tash has another... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562824252
• ISBN13: 9781562824259
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Bright, bold, and beautiful!

What a wonderful book to have on hand during Black History month! It contains bright and bold colors in paintings of twelve beautiful African American women who tell us briefly about their lives and become the basis for longer collaborative work and projects by students. Add Faith Ringgold (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) and there is the basis for another African American woman in the mix. Depending on the age group and your collaboration with your school media specialist/librarian, these are the things you can incorporate into a wonderful Black History project: 1. "Dinner at Aunt Connie's House"--read aloud parts of book for introduction to historical figures. 2. Go through "Faith Ringgold (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)" to identify the artist and some of her other books. 3. Assign one figure to a team of two (depending on class size). Make adjustments that suit your students. 4. Explain the assignment (as you determine best for your class). I would have mine do a powerpoint presentation using this book, one encyclopedia (if applicable), one book or magazine, or one internet article. Or posters. Or shoebox presentation. Or items pulled from a paper sack. Or whatever idea you create. 5. Require a written report (but it is not to be read to the class) 6. Have fun grading these projects! Display them. As for Faith Ringgold's book, it is a celebration of women of color and the variety of things they have done in art, acting, writing, civil rights, education, public speaking, singing, leading, and cosmetics. Melody and her newly adopted cousin, Lonnie, visit and talk with the women in the paintings. (You have to be there.) They have gone to their Aunt Connie's house for a big annual dinner and the display of her new art. Family comraderie is also a part of the story. By the end Melody has decided to grow up to become President of the United States and Lonnie will be a great opera singer! Well, why not?

Wonderful encouragement

Dinner at Aunt Connie's House tells of a african-american family gathering where paintings of *great women* come to life. This is a wonderful book that encourages young children that all dreams are possible, no matter what the obsticles. The only draw back is that the flow of the book is sometimes hard to follow. I would strongly encourage this book for any child, expecially girls, to let them know that anything is possible as long as they have a dream.

This was an inspirational and motivating story!

My name is also Connie so I found this book quite interesting and so did my neice and nephew! The story was a great way to introduce several different African-Americans and their accomplishments in a very novel way. I found it to be quite an inspiring story. I am also a teacher. My class really enjoyed the book. The suspense built by the author kept my students actively engaged. They enjoyed painting their own portraits after hearing the story!