خرید کتاب I Want Ice Cream!

Elisabetta Pica was born in Milan in ۱۹۶۰. She works as educator and teaches theater to people from ages ۲ to ۹۹. She travels all over Italy to promote reading among children through her plays and picture book readings. Elisabetta is the author of The White Book (with Lorenzo Clerici and Silvia Borando), originally published by the Italian publishing house minibombo and translated into English by Candlewick Press. Her books have been sold to China, France, Spain, and many other countries.

Silvia Borando was born in ۱۹۸۶. She earned her degree in Communication Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan in ۲۰۰۸. As a children’s picture book author and illustrator, she founded the Italian publishing house minibombo in ۲۰۱۳, dedicated to little children and the grown-ups who read along with them. Her books have been translated into many languages and sold all around the world. –This text refers to the hardcover edition.

K-Gr ۲—A young boy shifts through five different emotional phases—playful, jealous, upset, pouty, and angry—during a tantrum to convince his parent to let him have ice cream; the adult says “no” every time. Paired with insistent dialogue befitting of the boy’s darkening mood, black-and-white doodle-like drawings simply focus on the boy’s body language and facial expressions. The scenes are deliberately infused with different solid colors to represent each particular emotion, such as red for “angry,” spreading from the text background to settle in the boy’s shirt. The tantrum ends abruptly when the child realizes his adult’s answer of “no” will not waver, but the process of this acceptance remains unexplained. A final wordless page spread shows the boy looking, in surprise, at three children happily eating ice cream, dressed in blue, green, and red shirts. Given the book’s color-emotion symbolism, an unwanted comparison can easily be drawn by young readers as they look between the contented children, whose adults seem to have said “yes” to their emotional displays, and the main character, who walks away empty-handed. VERDICT As a visual social-emotional teaching tool for young children, this book would require a great deal of adult-led discussion to untangle the ending and explain why it is important for a child to accept an adult’s refusal.