Sunshine Picklelime

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Read more Read less. Prime Book Box for Kids. From School Library Journal Gr —PJ Picklelime meets a yellow warbler who can't warble, names him Lemon Pie, and allows him to take up residence in her thick crop of curly black hair while she teaches him to sing. Product details Age Range: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers.

Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I did enjoy reading Sunshine Picklelime. I liked the author's gentle voice and the sense of whimsy in the story. But there was much about the story that was idealized, such as PJ's harmoniously multi-cultural community.

I am also unconvinced that a child could be as emotionally self-aware as PJ was in the wake of her friend's death or that she would be comfortable enough with so many adults to ask them to help her understand what happens to a soul after death. Still this could be a useful book for adults and children to read together. There are lots of good topics for discussion - different cultures, different faiths, the environment, divorce, death, etc. On a personal note I was a little disappointed in the answers that the two Christian characters gave to PJ when she asked them about death and what happens to a soul afterward.

It seemed as if both characters started by saying they didn't follow what their faiths taught.

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I understand that the concepts of hell and purgatory are probably not a great introduction to Christianity for children who are unfamiliar with it. But I think the author might have found something a bit more authentic to pull out - like Jesus, perhaps. On the other hand I am not familiar enough with Bhuddism, Hinduism, etc. It's interesting that I have heard a number of comments on the contemporary feel of this book, but it reminded me very much of a Louisa May Alcott story with loving adults dispensing wisdom and children earnestly trying to do their best in life.

I can't count the number of times I read Little Women growing up, so that's not a complaint, just an observation. In short, Sunshine Picklelime takes place in an idealized story world and blatantly lays out lessons for readers to learn. It is also charming and I think, a useful book for adults to share with children.


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I wouldn't say it is is destined to be a favorite for me, but it was a worthwhile read. Picklelime finds herself having to struggle with some difficult situations.

Thanks to a wonderful multi-ethnic community and a little help from her feathered friends she finds the support she needs to overcome her sorrows. This wonderful book is ideal for children It starts with young PJ, or Sunshine as she comes to be known, befriending a little yellow warbler and tucking the small bird in her kinky hair to hide it from her parents. The book grows to cover a broad range of emotions and deals with complicated issues in a way most kids will understand and identify with.

What is also very nice is the way Pamela weaves many of today's ecological concerns into her first book for young readers, including an oil spill. Sunshine learns about organic farming and the ways of the local animals. She and her friends search out the strange disappearance of the community's owls and deal with unsavory pet shop owners.

The book contains many surprises. Best of all, this is a book parents can enjoy reading with their children, as the author doesn't not talk down to children but treats them as young adults. It is charming in its characters and locale, a tightly knit community of neighbors of many nationalities, races, and religions explained by a computer company that has opened across the mountain ; it features many recognizable and reassuring features of classic children's literature--barns, tree houses, and beaches; but it confronts some serious challenges to blissful innocence, such as a parental discord, loss, and even death.

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Making it contemporary are several references to e-mail and laptops, plus the clever triumph over evil-doers by uploading a video to local media's web sites. But tech-y bits aside, the book is a how-to manual in psychic survival for preadolescents navigating today's world. Uplifting without being preachy, it provides lessons in making chocolate truffles, planting and composting an organic garden, drawing to large-scale using a grid, and, most important and centrally, how to deal with grief.

I pre-ordered this wonderful book for my 10 year old niece purely on the strength of its advance publicity. I was not disappointed. In fact, after reading and enjoying it myself, I was surprised the publisher had not sufficiently emphasized its contemporary theme and characterizations. The author, Pamela Ellen Ferguson, speaks directly to the Now Generation; adolescents who readily use computers, flip cams, cell phones and the Internet.

She confronts in beautiful prose and enduring life lessons, the dilemmas and confusion this generation of readers face as they navigate into adulthood.

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This is a modern tale of intergenerational and interracial friendship, of respect for our world and those who inhabit it. Told in delightful language and peppered with characters, both animal and human, the pages are filled with a story that is both magical and fundamental.

I hope this is the first in a series. My niece and I can't wait for PJ's next adventure.

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Snow drifts like powdered sugar down the mountainside in winter. Life in PJ Picklelime's village is always a little out of the ordinary. There's the day Lemon Pie, a yellow warbler, came to live in her bushy crop of black hair and the morning when PJ cut her hair to help mop up an oil spill. There's the afternoon she made sweet, memory-filled lemonade that drew people from blocks away, and the night she chatted with owls in a barn full of honey. But PJ's spring is not all roses and rainbows, and after Lemon Pie flies away, PJ's parents split up, and a friend dies unexpectedly, PJ turns to her neighbors, with their philosophies from all over the world, for help in understanding.

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