Pink and Say

Pink and SayWhen Sheldon Russell Curtis told this story to his daughter, Rosa, she kept every word in her heart and was to retell it many times. I will tell it in Sheldon's own words as nearly as I can. He was wounded in a fierce battle and left for dead in a pasture somewhere in Georgia when Pinkus found him. Pinkus' skin was the color of polished mahogany, and he was flying Union colors like the wounded boy, and he picked him up out of the field and brought him

When Sheldon Russell Curtis told this story to his daughter, Rosa, she kept every word in her heart and was to retell it many times.
I will tell it in Sheldon's own words as nearly as I can.

He was wounded in a fierce battle and left for dead in a pasture somewhere in Georgia when Pinkus found him. Pinkus' skin was the color of polished mahogany, and he was flying Union colors like the wounded boy, and he picked him up out of the field and brought him to where the black soldier's mother, Moe Moe Bay, lived. She had soft, gentle hands and cared for him and her Pink.

But the two boys were putting her in danger, two Union soldiers in Confederate territory They had to get back to their outfits. Scared and uncertain, the boys were faced with a hard decision, and then marauding Confederate troops rode in.

In this Civil War story passed from great-grandfather to grandmother, to son, and finally to the author-artist herself, Patricia Polacco once again celebrates the shared humanity of the peoples of this world.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Philomel Books
Published: 09/15/1994
ISBN: 9780399226717
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 11.40h x 8.86w x 0.41d
Award: Maine Student Book Award - Winner
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Irma S. & James H. Black Award - Winner

Review Citations: School Library Journal 10/01/1994 pg. 126
Booklist 09/01/1994 pg. 54
Publishers Weekly 08/15/1994 pg. 95
Kirkus Review - Children 09/15/1994 pg. 1279
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1994 pg. 50 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/15/1995 pg. 862
ALA Notable Children's Books 04/01/1995 pg. 1411
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/1994 pg. 25
School Library Journal 09/01/1997
School Library Journal 10/01/1994

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 8685 / Pink and Say
Reading Level: 3.8 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 1