 Hi everyone my name is Steph this is Little Bookish Teacher and today is National Pink Day so I thought I would share some picture books with pink covers. Pink is one of my favorite colors I just think it's so bright and cheerful and I decided to go through and see if I could find some picture books on my shelf that did have pink covers. Surprisingly I didn't have as many as I thought I would but I'm going to share the ones that I found with you. The first book is aptly titled Pink. This is by Lynn Rickards and illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain. This is the story of Patrick who is a penguin who one morning wakes up and he's pink and he's not impressed by this at all because suddenly he is different. He begins to feel like he no longer fits in and so he goes off in search of other pink birds. He eventually finds some flamingos and finds that maybe they're not the best company and ends up wandering back home where he discovers that it's okay to be different and in fact the people who love and care about you don't care about the fact that you look different, they care about you. It is really gorgeous, it is really fun. There are some really funny moments in the story, particularly in the illustrations and it is a really entertaining read, particularly if you want to have a talk about how we are all different and how we celebrate the things that make us different. Another well-known one is I Want to Iguana by Karen Kaufman. All Off and Illustrators by David Catro. This is the story of Alex who wants a pet iguana and so he starts writing letters to his mum who writes back to him and tells him you know why he can't have an iguana and so Alex begins to try and convince mum so he has to come up with convincing arguments. This is a really great book to use for early readers and writers who are beginning to explore persuasive writing. It has very quirky illustrations which makes it really fun to look at and is quite an enjoyable read. There is Some Mums by Nick Bland. This is a book that is quite good around Mother's Day, it is simply about the qualities of mums so lots of really great T2 words that describe mums like tough and fierce and then also other qualities like being able to solve problems but in different ways to other mums because everyone is unique and different so it's really gorgeous. There are lots of different animals in the story. There's lots of really short sentences that sound really great when you read it out loud and plenty of gorgeous engaging illustrations. The next one is a book that I found while I was in it was either Big W or Kmart or somewhere like that and they had them you're going to see in a moment. They had the same book with lots of different versions and this is I'm a September Birthday Girl. I'm the first one to say I don't like the gendered girl boy blue pink sort of thing. In this case it works in my favor because I love pink but you know take that as you will but I couldn't not share it because it is probably the pinkest picture book that I own. This is a series there's a book for every month for boys for girls. I would like to see some gender non-conforming books in the future but we'll go with what we have here and essentially this is just a really joyful celebration of having a birthday. It's great because you could use it in to talk about an introduced calendar and the passing of time through the year but mostly I really like this book for the connection that you can make to birthdays and celebrations and what people do to celebrate what you look forward to. So it's a really great jumping off point for conversations or writer's notebook prompts for that and also it's just very bright and colorful. A pink book that I do have that does celebrate gender non-conforming characters is Catarina Crookshanks by Daniel Gray Barnett. This is just such a fun book. Catarina Crookshanks is this wild child and they have this bright, vivacious personality that sometimes gets to be too much for other people at one such time when things probably don't go quite according to plan. They tell Catarina that they need them to stop because it's just too much and so Catarina goes away and suddenly their friends begin to realize that life is just a little bit less bright and a little bit less fun without Catarina around. This is a really great book for talking about social skills and about the way that we talk to and treat other people and the way that we recognize people's differences. There are so many great conversations that you can have around it but it is such a fun little book with some really unique characters that I don't think we see all the time. And then finally I have Liarbird by Laura and Phillip Bunting and this is about a Liarbird who likes to tell lies and tells so many lies in the forest that when something bad happens the other animals no longer believe the Liarbird and it is about the Liarbird realizing perhaps that telling fibs may not help it get ahead in life. I love the style of all of Laura and Phillip Bunting's books. One, Phillip Bunting's illustrative style is gorgeous. I'm also obsessed with these endpapers. This would make amazing wallpaper and the whole thing is just fun and gorgeous to look at. There is a lot of humor in here. It may go over the heads of some younger readers but if you're reading it to a younger reader as an adult it is highly entertaining. So those are some books for National Pink Day. I hope that you enjoyed them. In the comments I would love for you to leave me a recommendation for a pink picture book that you really enjoy reading. Otherwise if you just want to let me know that you're here but you don't want to leave a comment feel free to leave any kind of emoji that is pink. I hope that wherever you are in the world you're staying safe and healthy and I will see you in my next video. Bye everyone.