Pink and Say

Pink and Say
by Patricia Polacco
48 Pages

Sheldon Russell Curtis is a soldier fighting in the Civil War. He is injured in the battlefield and is laying on the ground in a great deal of pain when Pinkus Aylee comes to his rescue. Pinkus took Sheldon to his mother’s house in order for him to get well. Sheldon recovered from his injury. In the meantime, it grew very dangerous for the two boys to be staying at Moe Moe Bay’s house (Pinkus’s Mother) because the war was going on and it was just not safe for the family to have the two boys there. One day, the boys were getting ready to leave the house to go back to the war and mauderer’s shot Moe Moe Bay. The two boys were captured and taken to Andersonville where they were kept as prisoners of war for the rest of their days. They nicknamed each other Pink and Say.
Personal Rating – 5
I had never read this book until now. I really enjoyed it. It was an account written about the Civil War that was “kid friendly”. This would be a good book to use in an early elementary classroom to teach students about the war. The pictures were really amazing as well.