This is the cute story of Kim Chee Lee, who has writers block! She loves to write anything, and even has a special tree house just for her writing studio. She has a sign that says do not disturb, or come play! Lately she's been having writer's block so her grandparents take a day from writing with her to a pottery shop.
Kim is able to pick anything she wants to paint...there are so many choices, but she settles on an Easter egg. She sits there and sits there. More of her friends come into paint, and they are painting masterpieces! She is frustrated; she doesn't understand how she cannot come up with any ideas. There are more and more people in the pottery shop, but nothing is helping. Kim has no ideas, until she lowers her head and realizes she has dripped paint on the egg and her baby sister, Olivia, has put polka dot finger prints on the egg. One of her friends points out you can't make a masterpiece unless you are willing to get messy. So Kim makes the egg messy, and then she starts to see things out of the mess; a tree, butterflies, grass, a little girl in a dress, and several other things.
She finishes her Easter egg, and it is beautiful! She is eager to get back home and start writing because her creative juices have started flowing!
A fun, creative book for young readers.
Look, L. (2011). Polka Dot Penguin Pottery. New York: Schwartz & Wade Books.
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