Princess Sparkle-Heart Gets a Makeover

This picture book starts out by telling a story of a little girl named Amelia and her doll named Princess Sparkle-Heart. They were best friends and did almost everything together. But one day, Amelia’s dog ripped apart Princess Sparkle-Heart. Amelia was devastated but her mom told her not to worry. So after Amelia told her mom everything that Princess Sparkle-Heart had to have (bigger muscles, beautiful eyes, good teeth, red hair, and some new clothes), she became even better than before.

I would use this book in my classroom for younger students. It is a great example to better understand emotions and how we express emotions. This book allows students to easily connect because there has always been a time when something that we loved has broken or gone missing. My students would have to express how they have either felt or how they would fill if they have not experienced this before. I would use this picture book to let my students work on their prediction skills. They have to be playing close attention to the pictures! Leading up to Princess Sparkle-Heart’s demise, Amelia’s dog would growl at them every time they were together having fun. This books allows students to make inferences from the illustrations and can use them in better helping them to understand the emotions that are occurring throughout the book. Lastly, this book would be a great example to my students how to make the best out of a situation. Even though Princess Sparkle-Heart was destroyed, Amelia’s mom worked with Amelia to fix her and create her even better than before. 

Princess Sparkle-Heart Gets a Makeover

Author: Josh Schneider

Year Published: 2014