Amanda (panda) Kornhauser

YaYa Yellow Amanda (panda) Kornhauser

YAYA, the Yellow Crayon teaches children all about the different times of the year, while presenting readers with increasingly developmentally age-appropriate problems to solve. YAYA's story is split into four separate sections, one for each season; participation from the reader and the mastery of thinking skills are encouraged by the use of repetition, both within and across the structures of each story. In each story, the reader is invited and encouraged to search for three of YAYA'S yellow "waxprints" to figure out her favorite seasonal activities. Skills: problem solving, reasoning, drawing conclusion, matching, sequencing, associative thinking, compare/contrast