Happy Birthday to You, Blue Kangaroo!

Blue Kangaroo #7

by Emma Chichester Clark

Lily and Blue Kangaroo share everything, even birthdays. And for her next one, Lily has decided that everything must be pink: pink invitations, pink party clothes, and pink wrapping paper. Even Blue Kangaroo gets a pink ribbon to wear. He isn't sure that he likes it, and once everyone starts to arrive, all dressed in pink and carrying pink presents, he thinks that Lily would prefer him if he were pink. He gets so miserable, that he creeps away. But Lily misses him and comes to find him. "I love blue, and I love you!" she says, and she changes into a completely blue outfit to show him she means it.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction

32 pages, Hardcover

First published September 26, 2006

About the author

Education:
Chelsea School of Art, B.A. (with honors), 1978;
Royal College of Art, M.A. (with honors), 1983.

Additional information about her life can be found at:
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1059...

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this story, Lily and Blue Kangaroo are celebrating their birthdays together. Lily has it all planned out, a pink party with guests bedecked in clothes of that colour as well. Blue Kangaroo is understandably put out, but bites his plush tongue, at least for a while. When he does not feel as though he can match the jubilation of the others, he hides away, forcing Lily to come to a sobering realisation. Neo loved the story and was curious to see the stuffy take a stand for himself. This has been a great series to find and I hope the library has many more for us to find.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this one less than the others, presumably because of the overwhelming amount of pink.

[معصومه توکلی · Rating 4 out of 5]

درهم شکستن کلیشه جنسیتی "دختر است و صورتی"اش خیلی خوب بود ولی به قول زهرا مواجه کردن بچه با چنین جشن تولدی عواقب خودش را دارد!

[Kahlia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love that book because Lily has a fun Birthday party.

[Lily · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was ok but it about a girl and a blue kangaroo

[Rachel F · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read to Henry

[Emily Allan · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Heidi-Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the Blue Kangaroo! He is so cute. A bit too much pink in this story for me, so I liked that Lily acknowledged liking blue as well as pink. Not where I was going for storytime, but it's nice that there are so many birthday-themed books!

Maybe I should have an all-blue party...

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really appreciated that there was a female protagonist with several good female characters and that not all of the little girls at the party were white.

The tale is a good one about unconditional love and communicating that love to the other person, or in this case kangaroo.

[Kathryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lily shares her birthday with Blue Kangaroo. When she has a pink themed birthday party he worries that she doesn't like him any more and tries to turn himself pink.