Welcome to my blog series Picking Pages: Picture Book Peeks where we pick our favorite Picture Book pages! Today we’re looking at LITTLE GREEN DONKEY by author and illustrator Anuska Allepuz. It was published by Candlewick Press in 2019.
This is such a fun book! I love the premise, the way it’s told, and the surprise ending.
We are introduced to an adorable donkey who LOVES juicy, zingy, sweet, and tangy grass. They even sleep on a pillow of grass and sing a song about grass. Little Donkey’s mom tries to get them to eat other foods, but nope. Just grass.
So much grass, in fact, that Donkey turns green!
Little Donkey must then try to find a way to change back. Their efforts don’t work so they finally switch to trying different foods. The ending surprises us in a hysterical way sure to entertain kids.
The first of my picks for a possible favorite page is what I call The Transformation. As they gobble up the yummy green stuff, they slooowly turn green themself! How enchanting is this? The spots get bigger and bigger until they are completely green — but don’t even notice!
My second possible fave page is the one I call The Full Portrait. Here the closeup of Little Donkey is so zoomed in that we must turn the book on its side to view it. And aside from being adorable, it’s labeled in such a fun way. Great for teaching the young audience sight words and body parts. My ears! My tummy!
What do you think? Which wins your vote for the favorite of the two?
Vote here:
Thanks for voting!
And remember, the best ways to support your favorite authors and illustrators includes buying their books, leaving them reviews, marking them as “want to read” on Goodreads, checking their books out of the library, and sharing how much you love the books on social media. Here are some helpful links:
- LITTLE GREEN DONKEY on Bookshop.org
- LITTLE GREEN DONKEY on Amazon
- LITTLE GREEN DONKEY on Goodreads
- The author/illustrator’s website: Anuska Allepuz
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Have you read LITTLE GREEN DONKEY? Tell me your thoughts in the comments.
And be sure to stop by my posts for ACORN WAS A LITTLE WILD and EVERYBODY IN THE RED BRICK BUILDING to vote for your favorite pages there, too!
Happy Reading!
xo Rosemary