Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (original 1996; edition 1996)

by Kevin Henkes, Kevin Henkes (Illustrator)

Series: Henkes' Mouse Books

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Member:	ghimbert
Title:	Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
Authors:	Kevin Henkes
Other authors:	Kevin Henkes (Illustrator)
Info:	Greenwillow Books (1996), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 32 pages
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Tags:	easy, teachers, fiction, picture book

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This was just the book to make me smile at the end of the work day! Cute story about Lilly, who's pleased as punch about her purple purse. After trying to show off at school, she learns that timing and patience have their rewards. (

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dukefan86 | May 29, 2013 |

1 Hardcover
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bkumin | May 26, 2013 |

I would use this book for the vocabulary and do a lesson on using context clues.

cbs022 | May 2, 2013 |

peacelutheran | Apr 9, 2013 |

Lily like her teacher so much, and one day she brought her purple plastic purse for show and tell, but the propblem was she can't leave her purse alone until "Tell and Show" Time. She then got into trouble with her teacher. She got mad at her teacher when her purse and sunglasses was collected by the teacher. Out of frustratrion, she wrote some bad and mean stuff about him. Latter on, she change her attitude by her teacher caring and forgiving. She learn her mistake and how to solve them by saying sorry to her teacher. (

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Henkes' Mouse Books

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Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

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1996

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Lilly

Mr. Slinger

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American Booksellers Book of the Year (Children's, 1997)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (1997)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (1996)

ALA Notable Children's Book (1997)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up (2009.0346|2009, Ages 5↑)

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LILLY loved school.

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The irrepressible mouse heroine of Chester's Way and Julius, the Baby of the World returns for another true-to-life and very funny episode. Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, Mr. Slinger--until he takes away her musical purse because she can't stop playing with it in class. Lilly decides to get revenge with a nasty drawing of "Big Fat Mean Mr. Stealing Teacher!" but when she finds the kind note he put in her purse, she's filled with remorse and has to find a way to make things right again. Children will sympathize with Lilly's impulsive mistake and laugh uproariously at the witty and expressive pictures of the very human mice. In a starred review, Publisher's Weekly called this book "sympathetic and wise." (Ages 4 to 8)

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Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

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