In a Blue Room

Precious story of little girl, Alice, who can't settle down at bedtime with out her mother's help, ultimatley satisfing her daughter's insistence of a blue room.

A short and gentle bedtime story about Alice, a little girl who wants everything to be blue before she goes to bed. Her kind and inventive mother, however, coaxes her with with fragrant white lilacs and lilywhites, warm orange tea, and a silky-soft quilt of red and green. And as she drifts off to

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sleep, "off goes the lamp and in comes the moon, bathing everything in its pale blue light." The pen and watercolor illustrations are softly colored with soft edges and a slight hint of whimsy, as in the painting of Alice floating down to her bed with her makeshift blue parachute. A very pretty book.

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Genre: Realistic Fiction
Review: this is a good example of realistic fiction because kids can relate how hard it can be to fall asleep. The story takes place in a relevant setting and therefore making it realistic fiction.
Media: Watercolor, ink, gouache
Style: the book was made in order for the

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audience to see all the sense being explored, therefore in order to do this the author brings in a lot of imagery and (puns). The title itself refers to the room being dark in order for Alice to fall asleep, but Alice describes it as a blue room.

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Little kid going to bed is given lots of things to help her by her mama. She wants everything to be blue! and imagines it thusly. Her initial demands, and the way she is able to adapt to reality with some imagination, feels very true to life.

Not much to this, but it's a sweet going-to-bed book, and

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affirming of parental caretaking.

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A young girl named Alice is determined only to fall asleep in a blue room in this lovely bedtime story, but is gradually won over by her mother's gifts, and calm assurance. Lilacs and lilywhites aren't blue, but she finds their delicious scent very relaxing. Tea isn't blue, but the comforting

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orange liquid makes her drowsy. The quilt isn't blue, but it's soft and cozy. The lullaby bells aren't blue, but their peaceful chiming sends her into slumber... just as the moon rises, and bathes the world in blue.

In a Blue Room is a charming pean to the rituals of bedtime, and the special customs of childhood. Soothing and gentle, it lulls the reader, just as Alice herself is lulled. Jim Averbeck's narrative is seamless, and Tricia Tusa's artwork - created with ink, watercolor and gouache - soft and appealing. I don't know that it was intentional, but I especially liked the broadening sense of perspective, at the end of the book, and the feeling that Alice is indeed sleeping in a blue room - the blue "room" of space.

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This is a very cute bedtime story about finding the comfort that everyone seeks in order to fall asleep. For Alice, that comfort is the color blue, which she finally receives once the lights are turned off and the moonlight colors her room.

I love the book, “In a Blue Room!” In my opinion, the book does a great job of using repetition to make the central message of the book apparent to its readers. The central message of the book is that Alice cannot fall asleep unless her room is blue. The central message relates to the idea that

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sometimes our troubles work themselves out without us needing to solve them ourselves. In the story Alice can’t fall asleep without her room being completely blue, but by the sky turning to night her room automatically turns blue without Alice having to do anything herself. Another aspect that I liked about this book is the way the words are arranged on the page. The words on the page are split up on each page with each sentence being about four or five short lines/phrases. For example, one page says, “In a blue room, orange tea, cools in a brown cup. Alice takes a sip, then rubs her drowsy eyes. This page was split up into two sentences, but the two sentences were a total of 5 lines. I feel that by splitting up the sentences into phrases and using lots of punctuation the author sets the book in a dreamy, night-time like mood which closely relates to the theme of the book. The theme of the book is revolved around Alice falling asleep. A third thing that I liked about this book is all of the dialogue included in it. Most of the story is told through dialogue between Alice and her mother about falling asleep and blue things. In my opinion, by making most of the text in the story dialogue, the author did a great job of making the reader feel as if they were there observing the story. I also feel that by including a lot of dialogue, the story has a more informal mood to it, which invites readers to feel as if they are a part of the story.

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I liked the idea behind this book, although neither the art nor the text really got through to me ...

A sweet book about a picky girl and her firm but loving mom. When she wants everything blue, mom steers her to what she needs, knowing that her dreams will come true in the end.

Alice can't sleep. She wants her room to be all blue! Her mom doesn't have blue flowers, or blue tea. But in the end, Alice finds a way to make everything blue (without any blue paint or dye). I like this book because it is happy and quiet , and will make you sleepy just reading it. I think it's a

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perfect bedtime story!

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Ehhh. Honestly, I thought it was boring. A little girl only likes things that are blue. But mama gets her settled down, and shows how everything is blue.