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Big Red Lollipop (2010)

by Rukhsana Khan(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0670062871 (ISBN13: 9780670062874)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Viking Juvenile

review 1: Rubina is invited to a Birthday party and is so excited. She is excited because in her culture they don’t have birthday parties. Her younger sister Sana wants to go and Rubina is embarrassed to take her. Rubina's mom told her that she has to call up her friend and see if her sister Sana can go or else she can't attend the party. Sana ends up going to the Birthday party and at the party, they each get a big red lollipop and Sana eats Rubina’s. Rubina does not get invited to anymore Birthday parties because everyone knows she will have to bring her littler sister. Later on when Sana is invited to a birthday party, Rubina saves her from having to take their younger sister. In the end, Rubina and Sana become really good friends. For this book, I could introduce some differ... moreent cultures that are expressed throughout the book. I could also ask the students to make connections by asking them if they have any siblings and experience similar discrepancies with their siblings. By making the connections, students are reading more carefully and listening to the text because they can relate.
review 2: This book is about a young South Asian American (I am assuming Pakistani American) girl, Rubina. She gets invited to a friend’s birthday party. When her younger sister, Sana, says she wants to come as well, her mom says that Rubina can only go to the party if she takes Sana with her, not knowing that this is an uncommon thing to do in American culture. So, Rubina takes her little sister to the party, but once there Sana becomes a sort of “party pooper” for everyone. Afterwards, all of Rubina’s friends stop inviting her to their parties. After a couple of years, Sana get invited to a birthday party of her own. This time, the youngest sister, Maryam, wants to go with Sana and her mom says she must take her until Rubina sticks up for Sana and tells her mother not to make her take Maryam. It is only then that Sana understands how her actions influenced her sister’s life all those years ago. The book is written by Rukhsana Khan, a person who is from the culture that is portrayed in the book. The appropriate age group is anyone from 2nd - 4th grade (although I enjoyed reading it myself). It is a children’s book that addresses how difficult it can be to balance home culture and school culture, specifically the Pakistani culture and the American culture. I think the conflict and resolution is shown in a simple, but very real context and offers children a different perspective to think about. less

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