Description
Quiet Violet, like her name, is a sweet pleasant child whose shyness causes her to bite her tongue and fume inwardly when she sees things that need fixing. In this cooking enterprise, where the youngsters team up to bake a cake, their enthusiasm masks their many mistakes in measurements of the essential ingredients. While silently watching her classmates hectic faulty baking maneuvers, finally little Violet cannot control herself and erupts with corrections. In a firm confident voice she assumes her role as coordinator and leader in this now successful baking enterprise.
This is a story to inspire all those youngsters lacking confidence that are termed shy or timid, sense that they too have something to say. The author Gabrielle Nidus has written a tale to help children gain confidence, while the illustrator Stephanie Dehennin has energized the story with her amazing colorful drawings that portray the chaos and frenzy that youngsters display when engrossed in an intriguing endeavor.
The book also offers advice to adults on strategies to use to help children find their voice. My one quibble with the story is that there is no adult overseeing this baking assignment and it would be unusual to assign children such a task without oversight. Perhaps such a story could better take place during recess, or a sports event, or a storytelling event or in some other setting.
