Punchinello's opinion of himself changes after talking to his creator.

A story to be told to every child, for they are all special. The Wemmicks are little wooden toys who give stickers and dots according to perfection or chips but soon realize that they are all special.

This is a fantasy book because the characters within it are mostly wooden dolls and they act as humans would. They judge each other and have feelings. Dolls for one are not alive and they do not have human characters such as ideas and the ability to talk.
In this story the dolls are alive and they get either gray dots or gold stars based on how they look. This story centers around one specific doll, Punchinello. Punchinello is always getting gray dots and that makes him very sad. All the dolls are made by the same person and a lady in the town Punchinello lives in shows him where the doll maker lives. Punchinello visits him and his creator tells him that he is special and perfect the way he is. Punchinello visits the maker everyday and soon all his gray dots have fallen off of him because he doesn't care what the others think of him.
Age Appropriateness: Primary, Intermediate
Media: Paintings ( )

This book is a fantasy because the characters in the book are wooden dolls that acted as humans would.
Wooden dolls all live in the same town and mark each other with golden stars if they look pretty, or are in good conditions, and hand out grey stickers for dolls who are worn down, or in need of repair. Punchinello always got grey dots, and was sad about that. A lady showed him where the maker lived and he visited him. The maker told him that he was important and special to him, and not to worry about the stickers, after that, Punchinello visited him everyday and the stickers would just fall off of him and not affect him. ( )

In this story, a boy is picked on. His community has dots and stars. Everyone in the community would either giv people a star or a dot. The dot meant that nobody liked you. If they did like you, they would give you a star. The boy got a ton of dots. He was sad, so he went to his maker to fix him. His creater showed him that it is okay to be different.
The connection I had with this book is that it made me think of God, my creator. God will love you no matter what other people think of you. God is there for me to go to anytime I need him.