Hen-sparrow Turns Purple

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Summary: wondrous scroll!
Review: A hensparrow falls into a vat of dye and turns the entire kingdom topsyturvy! The story is simple enough, but what makes this book very special are its design and illustrations. Designed as a scroll book, 'Hensparrow Turns Purple' needn't sit on the bookshelf... it's a piece of wall art!The luminous watercolor illustrations have a jewel-like quality which makes you pore over them, again and again.Not surprisingly, 'Hensparrow Turns Purple' won its illustrator, Pulak Biswas, the prestigious Biennale of Illustrations Bratislava Award (1999).Truly well-deserved.