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    Emily's Blue Period
    Ebook53 pages35 minutes

    Emily's Blue Period

    By Cathleen Daly and Lisa Brown

    4.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Emily wants to be an artist. She likes painting and loves the way artists like Pablo Picasso mixed things up.

    Emily's life is a little mixed up right now. Her dad doesn't live at home anymore, and it feels like everything around her is changing.

    "When Picasso was sad for a while," says Emily, "he only painted in blue. And now I am in my blue period."

    It might last quite some time.

    A Neal Porter Book

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 17, 2014
    ISBN9781466873155
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    Emily's Blue Period
    Author

    Cathleen Daly

    Cathleen Daly is a writer and performance artist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of the novel Flirt Club, and the picture book Prudence Wants a Pet, both published by Roaring Brook Press. Her second picture book with Roaring Brook Press, Emily's Blue Period, was the runner up for the 2015-2016 Texas Bluebonnet Award, was a Junior Library Guild Selection, a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, and a Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice (University of Wisconsin).

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    • 4/5
      Emily likes to paint and admires Pablo Picasso. As she struggles with her parents separation she realizes she is going through her own "blue period." This book could be a mentor text for narrative writing with an emphasis on descriptive language.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this book a lot. One text feature that stood out was that even though it’s a short picture book, it was still split up into five chapters, following Emily through her Blue Period. Since it’s a book about art, the illustrations are crucial to telling the story. They simply illustrated with fun coloring and character details. The story is about Emily as an artist and how she relates to Pablo Picasso as an artist. The reader gains insight about the artist and connect prior knowledge to help understand the story. In addition, there is a deeper story here. It addresses a tough issue, which the reader can assume is divorce. Emily is facing the adjustment of her parents no longer living together. This adjustment impacts her art, showing how a person can turn to a creative outlet during times of hardship. The font itself is used to tell the story, changing as important things happen in the story or changing to be an artistic representation of the plot. The big idea of this book is that it’s okay to go through a blue period, but everything comes together when we identify with various features of our lives.
    • 5/5
      Emily loves art. She especially loves Picasso's art and often does the same style art as him. One day her dad moves out and she does not quite understand why. She goes through a blue period just like Picasso. She has to work through her emotions to find her inspiration again. At school, they begin to learn about collages and they have to make one that represents home. Emily begins to worry because she does not know which home to represent, the one where she lives with her mother and brother, or the one where she lives with her dad and brother. She asks her mother which one home is, and her mother tells her they are both her home. Then her brother says, "Home is where the heart is." Emily finds her inspiration. This book discusses a topic that many students may face, divorce. This is usually hard on a lot of students, so this book is a great way to discuss those feelings.
    • 4/5
      Nice story about Picasso and art (especially collage) and divorce and home.
    • 4/5
      A young art-loving girl with a particular affection for Pablo Picasso's unique way of portraying the world through cubism uses art to help her cope with the stress of her parents separating. A sophisticated, empowering story.
    • 5/5
      simple story, but plenty of emotion - simply stated. Good book.