Hen-sparrow Turns Purple

Designed as a scroll, and silk-screened by hand on handmade paper, this is a cheerful adaptation of a traditional folk tale. Hen-sparrow falls into a vat of dye and turns quite purple. Her strange new color turns the entire kingdom upside down, but Hen-sparrow quite likes herself purple . . .

Inspired by medieval Indian art and narrative traditions, this visual and tactile treat has a clever feminist twist. The form of the book and the cumulative rhyme re-create the age-old magical experience of storytelling with pictures.

Winner of the Grand Prix at the prestigious Biennale of Illustrations, Bratislava.

"Beguiling and a wonderful introduction to the appreciation of a more global culture of the picture book."—Mike Simkin, Carousel Magazine, United Kingdom