Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot

I really love this sweet series! Violet Mackerel is a thoughtful, intelligent little girl who resides with her mother and two siblings in what may be Australia, but could be any small town. She lives according to her various "theories"--brilliant and insightful ideas of the type only a young, unjaded mind can dream up.
The reading level is fairly low, so young readers will be able to read these on their own, but I think parents will enjoy reading them aloud.

I very much enjoy the illustrations by Elanna Allen. I wonder why there are two different illustrators for different editions for a new book?

If a child wrote this, the teacher would have done a lot of red-lining. "Quite" and "actually" and "sort of" and even a chapter called "A Slight Disaster" ... too much! Sure, it sounds friendlier and cuter, but it's not good writing.

Other than those quibbles, this is utterly charming, and I will def. try to find more in the series.

Utterly charming. Violet is a young girl - 6? - who really wants to buy a china bird, but struggles with a way to raise money to buy it.

While this is a lovely story with beautiful pencil drawings, it falls into that weird high reading/low interest level, but if you have a kindergartner or 1st grader with a higher reading level, she will love Violet!

Recommended.

Sweet story about young girl working towards a goal and persevering in face of challenges. Story focuses on her creative abilities to find ways to reach her goal. Also touches on family life with single mother and new friends. Violet's enthusiasm is catching and her can do attitude is inspiring.

So I may need to sneak off and read this entire series on my own. The adorable cover illustrations drew me in. Then the story line had me hooked. Each title page starts with a small knitting inspired illustration - sign me up! The heroine is as sweet as pie. These are just the type of stories I would want to write myself. My daughter let me read two of them to her and she read #3 on her own...but does not have quite the same level of love for these as I do.

Violet's mother knits and sells her handmade goodies at a weekend market. Yes, you had me at knit and weekend market. Im sold! Love these books!!

The Authors website is also quite lovely!