Mina’s White Canvas by Heyeon-Ju Lee
(2015) #ownvoices
Mina feels gray and gloomy—just like the weather. Like
her many literary predecessors, she begins to draw snowflakes, which quickly
transform her world into a vast landscape to explore. She meets various
animals, and solves their problems with her magic crayon, adding more and more
color to her world. Mina sits comfortably next to Harold and his purple crayon,
with a shorter story more suited to storytime that also has a focus on helping
others.
Themes/topics: Helping, kindness, drawing, crayons,
imagination, adventure
Sample text from two spreads:
The new friends walked through the forest. “Look!”
Said Mina. “I see someone in that cave!”
It was Mr. Bear. He had grown so fat during
the long winter that he was stuck in the cave opening. Mina and Grandfather Woodpecker
pulled and tugged, but they could not get him out.
Mina took her crayon and drew a big blue
door on the side of the cave. Hooray! It was just the right size for Mr. Bear!
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