Rosie & the Yellow Ribbon

By Paula De Paolo

Book Overview

Rosie and Lucille, two little girls of diverse backgrounds, discover the importance of the bond of friendship and trust, in a sensitive multicultural story. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316181005
• ISBN13: 9780316181006
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Tie a Yellow Ribbon

Rosie's grandmother has sent her a box of ribbons for her 6th birthday. Rosie is delighted with her gift and her favorite ribbon is a yellow one with minute white polka dots. She eagerly shows it off to her best friend, Lucille. Rosie leaves Lucille and her chubby fox terrier alone with the box to take a phone call. When she returns, she discovers her favorite ribbon missing and accuses Lucille. Miffed, Lucille defends herself and Rosie withdraws her invitation to her birthday party. Since Lucille's hair looks like a chopped and cropped haystack, logic rules out her immediate use for ribbons. The party's a bust without Lucille and her chubby dog; even the kindly neighbor, Mr. Brown and his free treats at his store don't restore Rosie's spirits. She wants to get into Lucille's good graces again. Thanks to some clever (but accidental) sleuthing, the girls catch the culprit; resume their friendship; enjoy Lucille's chubby dog and play with her and enjoy the treats they planned on sharing in the first place. The illustrations are beautiful and I like the city culture, e.g. the neighborhood shops and the apartment buildings. This is a good story about friendship and about learning not to jump to hasty conclusions.

Story of Friendship

Rosie and the Yellow Ribbon is about two girls who are best friends. Their names are Rosie and Lucille. Rosie and Lucille do everything together and enjoy the same things. They love Mr. Brown's store's lemonade, they love watching the sparrow, and they love wearing ribbons in their hair. One day, Rosie find her favorite ribbon, her yellow one, missing. She thinks about Lucille and ends up suspecting that Lucille was the culprit of taking her favorite ribbon. Read this book and find out if Rosie was correct in her assumption about her closest of friends.