r/childrensbooks

So I can't for the life of me remember the name of this book. I read it as a kid in the mid/late 90s, maybe very early 2000s. It's a children's book, the animation style is kind of disney-ish, the main character is a human girl who is doing a play or recital of some kind. She is dressed in a pink/magenta costume for part of it, but there's another part she dresses up also as a tiger. Her face is painted like a tiger. There's a boy in the show or audience as well. I remember her holding a bouquet as some point too. Can't remember if she also dressed as other things as well... I've been looking everywhere and striking out. I don't think it was a series.

Happy October y'all (even tho it barely feels like it for me because of this current socal heatwave 😭😭😭) in addition to it supposedly being Fall time, this time of year also happens to always feel like birthday season to me

I know a lot of people who personally have birthdays around this season AND, since I started teaching, I've coincidentally happened to have quite a lot of students with birthdays in autumn each year too

I thought it'd be nice if I was more prepared this year around and had some birthday-related books ready for any birthday students coming up, OR for any future time I have a birthday in the class!!

I'm up for ANY kind of story so long as a birthday is actually part of it lololol. Could be a super silly/funny book, something cute/sweet/sentimental, a story about a birthday party going completely awry, whatever honestly 🙂‍↕️🙌 the variety would be cool because then I can choose or suggest the specific story based on which student's birthday it is (:

The book doesn't have to be specifically about birthdays itself either, if that makes sense. I think it's cooler in books where a birthday is like a core, or at least semi important, part of the story and feels memorable, but isn't necessarily the entire premise

I'm mostly looking for picture books & early elementary since I work with K - 3, but I'm definitely open to slightly younger and/or older books too!! Sometimes I won't get the chance to do a full on read aloud of the book with the class, but I usually do try to at least suggest good stories to my students (especially because most have access to Epic!, so they can easily find lots of em)