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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Purple, Green and Yellow


Book Title: Purple, Green and Yellow

Author(s): Robert Munsch

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Helene Desputeaux

Publisher: Annick Press Ltd.

Copyright Date: 1992

Genre: Fictional picture book

Brief Annotation: Purple, Green and Yellow is about a young girl, Brigid, who wants more than anything for her mother to buy her some new coloring markers. She builds up the trust with her mother that she won’t color on the walls or on herself until her mother agrees to buy her the newest, forever-permanent markers. All goes well until Brigid gets bored with coloring on paper and begins to color on people in her family--including herself! Thanks to an ‘invisible’ pill from the doctor, she’s able to wash everything off her body and color herself back to normal!

Your Rating (1-5) and why: (4.5) This is a cute story with lots of lessons in it about taking care of our art tools and being careful where we use them! The illustrations are brilliantly vibrant and very fun to look at throughout the story.

Readers who will like this book: Students who will be excited about this book are the artists in class! Not only will they enjoy taking in all the detail of the pictures and how Brigid uses her magic markers, but they’ll be excited afterwards to draw their own pictures with ‘magic markers’ that can be brought out by the teacher.

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: Before reading this book we would look at the cover and ask ourselves what Brigid might be drawing with her markers. When do we use markers? What do we like to draw with markers? What are some of our favorite colors?
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  1. Suzy Kaback & FamilyFebruary 2, 2012 at 11:56 AM

    I was interested to see that Musnch had an illustrator other than his old pal and collaborator Micheal Martchenko. Good to know!

    I can tell you work with young children because you are skilled at writing questions that engage their attention before you even crack the book open. Kids are attuned to illustrations much more than adults (we learned to stop looking at those as soon as we started reading well!), so you're building on well-honed skills when you invite a close look at the cover to make predictions.

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