Pink and Say

Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco is a heart felt book about two young boys that fought in the Civil War. Sheldon Curtis, Say, was found in a field shot and disoriented by Pinkus Aylee, Pink. Pink saved him by carrying him and dragging him for "a powerful long way." Pink led Say back to his home where his mother, Moe Moe Bay, nursed him back to health and prayed that her son and Say wouldn't have to leave to go back to the war. Pink knew he had to leave to keep his mother out of harms way. On the day Pink and Say were going to leave and head back towards the war marauders came and Moe Moe Bay hid the boys in the cellar inside and made a run for it to protect them. A single shot was heard outside of the house and Pink knew what had happened, and things only get worse for Pink.
The story depicts a great story of a friendship that took place after Pink saved Say, who had never seen a black man before. I think this book would be a great book to read with a unit on the Civil War, or slavery. The story is amazing and is an easy book to read and it is also very interesting to follow along with. The pictures are very detailed and give a very good visual to the story as it is read. Some of the pictures really capture the emotion that take place and make the reader feel the emotion as well. I would highly recommend this five star book as a read aloud to older students with some background of the Civil War and slavery so that they really understand the situation and appreciate what the book is about.