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Matt Faulkner is a talented and clever picture-book maker whose dazzling ink and watercolor illustrations have graced dozens of well-loved picture books. On his inspiration for A Taste of Colored Water, he says, "When I was a boy it would've surprised me to learn that the word COLORED hung over a water fountain didn't mean that this was a magical place where fruit-flavored water flowed on demand." This story has grown out of his lifelong exploration of race and societal intolerance and the questions these institutions raise. His more recent work features several titles that focus on United States history, including Thank You, Sarah by Laurie Halse Anderson and You're on Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt by Judith St. George. He lives in Oakland, California, with his son.
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Like Evelyn Coleman’s middle-grade novel Freedom Train, this picture book, set in the early 1960s, tells the segregation story from the viewpoint of a naive white kid, Lulu, who loses her innocence when she confronts the racism and cruelty toward blacks. Lulu and her cousin Jelly grab the chance to make their first trip to the big city because they want to taste the “colored water” people have there. Lulu certainly don’t understand the scary street demonstrations they see—until they use a drinking fountain and are driven off by a yelling policeman and his vicious dog. Watercolors decorated with ink crosshatching ably contrast the sweet pastoral fun the children experience with their sudden, terrifying wake up. Faulkner’s personal note about his growing up in the north, where segregation was not official but prejudice was always there, will spark discussion. Grades 1-3. --Hazel Rochman
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1416916296
- ISBN 13 9781416916291
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages48
- IllustratorFaulkner Matt
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Faulkner, Matt (illustrator). Hardcover. You could blame Abbey Finch. If she hadn't come back from town with tales of a fountain bubbling forth with "colored" water, LuLu and Jelly would not have needed to go see for themselves. But it's not Abbey's fault. It's the early 1960s and colored water isn't the fruit-flavored, Technicolor wonder that LuLu and Jelly are expecting. And having a drink doesn't come without a price. Celebrated author/illustrator Matt Faulkner combines colloquial, down-home storytelling and timeless images of pastoral America to create a thought-provoking account of what happens when the naive and whimsical imagination of a child is confounded by the reality of intolerance. Are you ready for a taste? The illustrator of "Thank You, Sarah" gives an unforgettable account of what happens when the naive imagination of a child meets the harsh reality of intolerance, in this tale set in Americas South in the early 1960s. Full color. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781416916291
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