Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot

by Anna Branford

Other authorsElanna Allen (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2012

Call number

JF BRA

Publication

Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2012), Edition: Reprint, 112 pages

Description

When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.

User reviews

LibraryThing member dms02
So I may need to sneak off and read this entire series on my own. The adorable cover illustrations drew me in. Then the story line had me hooked. Each title page starts with a small knitting inspired illustration - sign me up! The heroine is as sweet as pie. These are just the type of stories I
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would want to write myself. My daughter let me read two of them to her and she read #3 on her own...but does not have quite the same level of love for these as I do.

Violet's mother knits and sells her handmade goodies at a weekend market. Yes, you had me at knit and weekend market. Im sold! Love these books!!

The Authors website is also quite lovely!
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LibraryThing member kayceel
Utterly charming. Violet is a young girl - 6? - who really wants to buy a china bird, but struggles with a way to raise money to buy it.

While this is a lovely story with beautiful pencil drawings, it falls into that weird high reading/low interest level, but if you have a kindergartner or 1st
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grader with a higher reading level, she will love Violet!

Recommended.
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Awards

CBCA Book of the Year (Shortlist — Younger Readers — 2011)

Pages

112

ISBN

1442435852 / 9781442435858
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