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Although Purple Little Bird has a perfectly purple house and garden, he feels something is "not quite right." After traveling to Brown Bear's cave, Gray Goat's steep cliff, and other locales searching for the "perfect place," he realizes his own home is "much too purple." This rather pale story is buoyed by Foley's strong, color-saturated illustrations.