Pink Paper Swans

By Virginia L. Kroll

Book Overview

"Kroll's story of an interracial, intergenerational friendship comes alive inClouse's full-color, cut-paper collages, the perfect medium for the story."--Booklist. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802850812
• ISBN13: 9780802850812
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

Not bad, though a little aggressively "multi-cultural".

So, this girl living in an apartment complex (which may or may not have greenery around it - she goes down to the "shadow" to hang out, which is shown as being mostly concrete, but we're also told about the buds swelling on the trees in spring) strikes up a friendship with an older Japanese neighbor over her origami, which she eventually learns to do eventually. It's a simple enough story, though I would've liked it to have been fleshed out a little more - all we know about Janessa is that she practices her origami a lot, and all we really know about her neighbor is that she came from Japan and is arthritic.