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Children's Fiction Bedtime & Dreams

Mabel Murple hc

by (author) Sheree Fitch

illustrated by Sydney Smith

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
Oct 2010
Category
Bedtime & Dreams, Stories in Verse, Colors
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781551097886
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $12.95

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Out of print

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 4 to 9
  • Grade: 1 to 3

Description

What if there was a purple planet with purple people on it? Sheree Fitch answers this question with a zany tongue-twister of a poem featuring Mabel Murple, a daredevil who rides a purple motorbike through purple puddles, skis on purple snow, and on her pancakes pours maple syrple.

With a rich and vivid purple palette, Sydney Smith's brand-new illustrations reflect the wild joy in this classic poem. Originally published in 1995, Mabel Murple won the Ann Connor Brimer award for children's literature.

About the authors

Sheree Fitch's first two books, Toes in My Nose (1987) and Sleeping Dragons All Around (1989), launched her career as a poet, rhymster, and a “kind of Canadian female Dr. Seuss.” Fitch has won almost every major award for Canadian childrenÕs literature since then, including the 2000 Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work Inspirational to Canadian Children. She has over twenty-five books to her credit, including her bestselling and critically praised adult novel, Kiss the Joy as it Flies (2008). Fitch's home base is the East Coast of Canada.

Visit her at: shereefitch.com

Sheree Fitch's profile page

Sydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia and has been drawing from an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated multiple children’s books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno Lawson, which won a Governor General’s Award, was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book and has been long-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is also the illustrator of Grant and Tillie Go Walking by Monica Kulling and The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart, both highly acclaimed. Sydney has received a number of other awards for his illustrations, including the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. He now lives in Toronto and works in a shared studio space in Chinatown.

Sydney Smith's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, Halifax's Mayor's Award for Illustration

Librarian Reviews

Mabel Murple

A zany tongue twister featuring Mabel Murple, a daredevil who rides a purple motorbike through purple puddles in her vivid purple world. Sheree Fitch’s children’s classic is back in print with rich new illustrations by Sydney Smith. Originally published in 1995 by Doubleday Canada with illustrations by Maryann Kovalski (Our Choice 1995/1996).

Source: The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Best Books for Kids & Teens. 2011.

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