Jealousy-Terry W. Foster

Jealousy, is an online picture book written by Terry Foster, and illustrated by Brody Bellon. This is a wonderful simple book on the friendship between two young girls, Corina and Kasey. They are best friend's who both love the color blue. There parents throw them a surprise party with all blue decorations. Corina gets a wonderful blue dress. Kasey is jealous and spills a drink all over it, which ruins the dress. Then Kasey gets a pair of blue sparkly shoes and Corina gets jealous and spills cake on it. The two girls then open the gifts they got each other which had both the opposite of what they received. Corina and Kasey would have both received the dress and shoes. However, they were too jealous before they could realize this. Corina and Kasey realize that they should never let jealousy get in the way of their friendship. This is an awesome book to use in the classroom with younger kids when focusing on different emotions and talking about friendship.

Was this a good book?
I really enjoyed this book, becasue it was simple yet brought up a powerful emotion that most students experience time to time. It is a great book to read when exploring diffrent emotions.

Is the story something that could really happen?
Yes, this book is something that happens all the time, even with adults. Jealousy is an emotion everyone experienences at least once in thier life. It is easy to become jealous of what others have. The book explains this in a great way, and shows kids it it not worth losing a friendship over.

Did the main character overcome the problem?
Yes, the two girls apologized to eachother and told one another they would not let jealousy take over their friendship.

Did the characters seem real?
Yes,  the characters seem very real. In fact, the book was dedicated to a Corina from a mother. The same story most likely happened, if not something very similar.

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Foreshadowing: In the book, it foreshadows that Corina and Kasey will recieve a gift from eachother, since they were shopping for eachother birthday gift in the beginning of the story.
Quotations:  I would explain to the students why sentences have quotation marks throughout the story.
Similie: Ex. "As blue as the sky."


 Mini lesson: I wouls use this book along with others to do a project on diffrent emotions. All students can work in partners. They will each recieve one emotion that they have to become an expert on explaining and giving examples. This could be one of the emotions they would study.

Foster, Terry. (2017) Jealousy, Story Jumper.