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"Actress Moore's first book for children introduces a girl 'who was just like everybody else except for one thing,' which turns out to be two things: she has red hair and 'something worse' — freckles. The child finds herself dubbed Freckleface Strawberry, and her peers annoy her with inane remarks: 'If you got more freckles, you would be one big freckle, and that would be a tan' and 'Can I smell them?' Predictably, she attempts to eradicate her freckles (she tries scrubbing, dousing them with lemon juice and drawing on herself with markers). When nothing works, she resorts to wearing a ski mask, whereupon her friends wonder aloud where she has gone. When she finally removes the hot, itchy mask, the gang announces that they've missed her, prompting her to 'smile so wide, she thought she would crack open' and to conclude, 'Who cared about having a million freckles when she had a million friends?' In Pham's (Big Sister, Little Sister) homely cartoons, rendered with a Japanese brush pen and digitally colored, the reddish spots covering the girl's face and arms look like a rash. With both the story and pictures presenting freckles as something of an affliction, freckle-faced readers are likely to wince. Ages 3-8." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Synopsis:
If you have freckles, you can try these things:
1) Make them go away. Unless scrubbing doesn’t work.
2) Cover them up. Unless your mom yells at you for using a marker.
3) Disappear.
Um, where’d you go?
Oh, there you are.
There’s one other thing you can do:
4) LIVE WITH THEM!
Because after all, the things that make you different also make you YOU.
From acclaimed actress Julianne Moore and award-winning illustrator LeUyen Pham comes a delightful story of a little girl who’s different ... just like everybody else.
JULIANNE MOORE is a four-time Academy Award-nominated actress. Freckleface Strawberry is her first children’s book. Ms. Moore lives with her husband and two children in New York City.
LEUYEN PHAM worked in animation before turning to children’s books. She wrote and illustrated Big Sister, Little Sister and is the illustrator of numerous other picture books. Ms. Pham lives in San Francisco, California, with her husband.
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