In 2014, a wonderful wordless picture book called Flora and the Flamingo won a Caldecott Honor. It is a delightful book that has charmed people all over the world with its wonderful artwork and its clever story. Since then Flora has gone on to meet a penguin, and now she is back strutting her stuff with a pair of peacocks. Flora has faced challenges before when she befriended the flamingo and the penguin, but these two peacocks present her with problems that are both new and difficult.
Flora and the Peacocks
Flora and the Peacocks
Molly Idle
Wordless Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
Chronicle Books, 2016, 978-1-4521-3816-9
Flora loves to dance, and somehow she tends to attract very
lovely, very gifted characters who end up dancing with her, all of whom are
birds. So far she has danced with an elegant flamingo and a charming penguin.
This time Flora comes across a pair of peacocks.
Wearing a pretty
teal, blue, and green outfit, and with a yellow fan in her hand, she bows to
the two peacocks. One immediately starts to approach her, and it is clearly rather
interested in sharing a dance with the little girl. The other peacock, with its
beak in the air, and later with its face completely hidden, makes it clear that
it is not interested in joining in at all.
Flora tries to
reach out to the uppity, aloof peacock and she even starts to make friends with
it, but then the first peacock takes umbrage and the next thing you know a very
unfortunate situation is created.
Three can be an
uncomfortable number when it comes to making friends. Flora and the peacocks
certainly discover that there is no knowing what might happen when jealousy and
an unwillingness to share surfaces. Children will appreciate why things go awry,
and they will be delighted when they see how Flora and the peacocks resolve
their problem.
This wordless book,
with its flaps that open and lift ,and its pages that unfold, is a delight to
the eye and the heart.
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