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Piven, Hanoch

The Perfect Purple Feather

32 pp. | Little/Tingley | September, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-316-76657-7 $$15.95
(4) K-3 Translated by Rachel Tzvia Back. Illustrated by Hanoch Piven & Janet Stein. Photographs by Adi Gilad. Forks, scouring pads, metal pipes--these are just a few of the objects used in Piven's innovative three-dimensional collages, which depict various animals vying for the purple feather that a boy finds on his pillow one night. The unremarkable rhyming text takes a back seat to the eye-opening artwork, which may inspire readers to create their own found-object creatures. The book comes with--what else?--a purple feather.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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