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Saturday, November 13, 2021

Witty in Pink! Pink by Lynne Rickards


One morning Patrick the Penguin woke up to a SURPRISE!

HE WAS PINK FROM HEAD TO FOOT!

A quick trip to the penguin pediatrician Dr. Black found nothing wrong--except that Patrick was no longer feathered in basic black and white.

"I'M A BOY! BOYS CAN'T BE PINK!" PATRICK CRIED.

His dad consulted his BIRDS OF THE WORLD BOOK.

"FLAMINGOS ARE PINK," MUSED HIS DAD. "AT LEAST HALF OF THEM ARE BOYS."

The kids at school are quite taken aback at his change from being black! Patrick decides he does not like being different! He packs his backpack and sets off to swim to Africa where the flamingos live and his pinkness won't stick out in the crowd!

But after swimming for seven days he finds that he's still different. They have long, long legs and wade deep in the lake where they spear fish for lunch. Patrick's flippers are way to short. And when the flamingos nap, they stand on one of those long legs and put their heads under their wings. Patrick really tried to follow the crowd.

HE WAS HOPELESS.

AND WHEN SUNSET CAME, THE FLAMINGOS FLAPPED THEIR WINGS AND ROSE INTO THE AIR LIKE A BIG PINK CLOUD.

And Patrick sees that being pink on the outside doesn't make him a flamingo. It's a long swim back to the South Pole for Patrick, a trip only a true penguin could carry off, in Lynne Rickard's Pink! (Windmill Books/Wacky Bee Books, 2020). Sometimes changes in latitudes do not make for a change in aptitudes! Rickards's back-to-basic-black pink penguin tale humorously points out that most differences in outward looks can be less unimportant when it comes to whom you are inside, backed up by Margaret Chamberlain's humorous illustrations of a penguin trying out flamingo-hood.

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