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Five starred reviews! From New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry comes a fantastical and unforgettable picture book about an unusual girl whose purple thumb helps her cultivate a truly macabre garden. When Prunella is born with a purple thumb instead of a green one like...
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Born with a purple thumb, Prunella prefers her to cultivate her strange, noxious garden over the company of people until a little boy visits and admires her prickly plants.
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Five starred reviews!
From New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry comes a fantastical and unforgettable picture book about an unusual girl whose purple thumb helps her cultivate a truly macabre garden.
When Prunella is born with a purple thumb instead of a green one like her parents, everyone’s stumped. What could it mean? Before long, they find out. Prunella prefers corpse flowers to carnations, fungi to ferns, and poison ivy to petunias. The stickier and scarier the plant, the more Prunella loves it.
And if her poisonous and noxious garden keeps the other neighbourhood kids away, it’s probably for the best. But then one day, a curious weed of a different sort pops up…
Should prickly Prunella uproot this tentative new friendship or allow it to flower?
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781665921732
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 16 July 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Illustration: f-c digital uncoated jkt & int (spfx: foil & emboss); int 5th color type; case has sep. art w-PMS color and Buckram texture
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Claire Keane
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 238.0mm
Height: 292.0mm
Weight: 515g
Pages: 40
About the Author
Beth Ferry is the author of numerous picture books for children including Roar for Reading, Prunella, and the New York Times bestseller Stick and Stone. She is an avid reader who believes that any day spent with a book is a perfect day. Beth lives with her family by the beach in New Jersey where she finds inspiration in the salty air. In addition to writing picture books, Beth also writes chapter books and graphic novels. She’s the author of the middle grade book Growing Home. You can learn more at BethFerry.com.
Claire Keane studied graphic design at École Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques in Paris, France, where she lived for eight years, until she moved to Los Angeles to work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. During her ten-year tenure there, she designed for Tangled, Frozen, Enchanted, and other films. In 2013, she left to dedicate her time to creating her own stories and to work on various book and animation collaborations at her studio in Venice Beach, California. Now, she is the author and illustrator of many books for kids, including Once Upon a Cloud, Love Is, Why?, and Prunella.
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