Book recommendation: Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink

Buy it: Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink

Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink (By Diane de Groat) – Gilbert is making valentines for his classmates with a nice poem on each one. But then he remembers when two of his classmates – Lewis and Margaret – were mean to him. So he writes poems that aren’t so nice for them and signs a different name. Margaret and Lewis are upset with the valentines and soon they figure out they were from Gilbert. Gilbert explains to Lewis and Margaret why he wrote the bad valentines and they become friends again. Then Gilbert makes two nice valentines for his friends.

The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, and I have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!