Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink - Hardcover

Danziger, Paula; Coville, Bruce; Levy, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399256563 ISBN 13: 9780399256561

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2012

Synopsis

Beloved Amber Brown returns in a new book!

Amber can't wait to be Best Child when her mom and Max get married, but planning a wedding comes with lots of headaches. Amber can't find the right dress, her dad keeps making mean cracks about Max, and Mom and Max have very different ideas about how much this wedding should cost. Her mother even suggests they go to city hall and skip the party altogether! Even though adults can be a lot of work, Amber is determined to be the best Best Child ever. She helps find the perfect location, makes her dad shape up, and, with the help of best friend Justin, gives the perfect wedding speech.

Paula Danziger called Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy her best friend and her other best friend, and this close connection enabled them to lovingly capture Amber Brown's voice, sense of humor, big-heartedness, and her fondness for puns.

About this title

About the Author:

Paula Danziger (1944-2004) was a flamboyantly funny and deeply honest writer who had a direct line into kids' hearts and funny bones.

Bruce Coville lives in Syracuse, New York.

Elizabeth Levy lives in New York City.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Amber Brown isn't looking for just any dress. It has to be THE dress.

“How about this one?” Aunt Pam says. “It’s not pink.”

“No, it’s outer-space green,” I say.

The dress is iridescent, which means shiny. And yes, I like shiny, but this one looks like an alien ate something that didn’t agree with it.

I give Aunt Pam my “I can’t believe you expect me to wear this dress” face. It’s a face I’ve been making all day. Aunt Pam is getting exasperated. Mom is getting exasperated. The sales woman is getting exasperated......and we’ve been to six stores before we even got to her.

I, Amber Brown, am exasperated too. I am also disgruntled, peeved, and put out. I have nothing to wear. I don’t mean that I’m naked. But now that we are having the wedding, I must, must, MUST have THE dress!

It’s not going to be alien green.

About this edition

• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0399256563
• ISBN 13: 9780399256561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Ross Tony