Prunella
By (Author) Beth Ferry
Illustrated by Claire Keane
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
30th August 2024
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
Childrens / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues
Hardback
40
Width 238mm, Height 292mm, Spine 10mm
515g
From New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry comes a fantastical and unforgettable picture book about an unusual girl whose purple thumb helps her cultivate a truly macabre garden.
When Prunella is born with a purple thumb instead of a green one like her parents, everyones stumped. What could it mean Before long, they find out. Prunella prefers corpse flowers to carnations, fungi to ferns, and poison ivy to petunias. The stickier and scarier the plant, the more Prunella loves it.
And if her poisonous and noxious garden keeps the other neighborhood kids away, its probably for the best. But then one day, a curious weed of a different sort pops up
Should prickly Prunella uproot this tentative new friendship or allow it to flower
Beth Ferry is the author of numerous picture books for children includingThe Story of a Roar,Prunella, and theNew York Timesbestseller,Stick and Stone. She is an avid reader who believes that any day spent with a book is a perfect day. Beth lives with her family by the beach in New Jersey where she finds inspiration in the salty air. In addition to writing picture books, Beth also writes chapter books and graphic novels. You can learn more at BethFerry.com.
Claire Keanestudied graphic design at cole Suprieure dArts Graphiques in Paris, France, where she lived for eight years, until she moved to Los Angeles to work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. During her ten-year tenure there, she designed forTangled,Frozen,Enchanted, and other films. In 2013, she left to dedicate her time to creating her own stories and to work on various book and animation collaborations at her studio in Venice Beach, California. Now, she is the author and illustrator of many books for kids, includingOnce Upon a Cloud,Love Is,Why, andPrunella.