Reinvention is the name of the game for two blobs of clay.Ī blue-eyed gray blob and a brown-eyed brown blob sit side by side, unsure as to what’s going to happen next. In this particular offering, the skin tones and facial features of some of the characters change significantly from page to page, which may distract readers.Ī great book to share with children for social-emotional learning. This book is part of a series ( Sergio Sees the Good, 2019, etc.) that features children of different races and abilities in various social learning situations. Miss Helpful suggests that, since Rosie can’t do anything about her haircut anyway, Tyaja’s offering that opinion is anything but. “Isn’t there a difference between an opinion and the truth?” asks Mr. These wee advisers give Tyaja enough information about the words they represent to help her determine whether what she wants to tell Rosie passes the THiNK Test. Suddenly “four tiny winged people” appear, each representing one of the words in the THiNK Test acronym. Later that day, Tyaja, a little black girl with kinky-curly hair, decides to tell her friend Rosie, a little white girl, that she does not like Rosie’s new haircut. Snowden writes the acronym THNK on the board, she explains that the missing “i” represents the thinker in the THiNK Test. This is an easy-to-understand book about the importance of consciously selecting words that are True, Helpful, Necessary, and Kind. Snowden begins this book by saying, “Let’s talk about the power of words,” and that is exactly what it accomplishes.
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