reckle face strawberry

Freckleface Strawberry Written by: Julianne Moore Illustrated by: LeUyen Pham
Being a seven year old girl with freckles and red hair is no easy thing according to Freckleface Strawberry who despises her freckles. Freckleface Strawberry who can do everything a seven year girl can do and sometimes even more gets made fun of by her friends for having her freckles which no one else in her family does except for her little baby brother. In the abundance of all these remarks being made about her freckles she decided to try to get rid of them. After having tried every possible thing from washing them away to covering them up with markers she decided to just make them disappear by wearing a face mask everywhere she went. In the end she hears her friends talking amongst themselves, worried where their red haired, freckled face friend had gone and how the new girl with the face mask is weird! At the end of this cute story you see Freckleface Strawberry happy to have all her friends back even if she did have a million freckles. They even show a picture of her when she grows up still with all her freckles and her family with her husband and two children; freckle-less.
This is a humorous book that will probably hit home to a lot of children whom have something they wish they could change about themselves. The strengths of this book are defiantly the theme and plot that work hand and hand to deliver a message that you are fine the way you are. The story is told from third person and shows an outsider looking in on Freckleface Strawberry seeing that everything she is seeing badly in herself actually makes her unique and special. This could help children realize that they are special and unique in their own way too. The pictures in this story play a huge role; there are huge pictures, multiple pictures, different sized pictures, and changing position pictures throughout this book. They stuck to the cartoon element and played on red, orange, yellow, and pink. This story could be used in younger grades as a read aloud and then as a beginning reader book in 1st and 2nd grades. Regardless, I think every child should read this book; make it not only a recommended but a required reading material somewhere throughout your lesson plans to engage children into looking at themselves and finding something wonderful about them. This could also be used in the 7th, 10th, and even college grade educational science classes as an introductory book to the heredity unit. They could figure out how Freckleface Strawberry got red hair and freckles when the rest of her family didn’t and then how her children didn’t get her freckles either. It could be a fun way to introduce a sometimes not so fun subject.