Author: Rukhsana Khan
Title: Big Red Lollipop
Illustrator: Sophie Blackhall
Readability Score: Lexile: 410L, DRA: Not Available, Grade Level Equivalent: 1.4, Guided Reading: Not Available
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Subgenre
Theme: Sharing and Siblings
Primary and Secondary Characters: Primary- Rubina and Sana Secondary - Mom, Maryam, and Rubina's friends
Awards/ Date of Publication: 2010
Publishing Company: Penguin Group
ISBN: 978-0-670-06287
Summary: Rubina is invited to a birthday party. Her younger sister Sana insists on going to the party with Rubina. The girls' mother agree Sana can go to the party with her older sister with one condition if Sana isn't allowed to go to the party neither can Rubina. After the party the girls are given treat bags, Sana eats all of her things from the treat bag. Rubina decides to save her big red lollipop from the party, but when she wakes up in the morning who has eaten her lollipop? Sana! The cycle begins again when, Sana gets invited to a birthday party, and their young sister throws a fit to with Sana to the birthday party. It is Rubina the wiser older sister who tells her mom not send the baby sister to the party, and Sana thanks her older sister by giving her something in return.
Classroom Teaching Ideas:
1. Sharing - feelings
2. Conflict and resolution
