Australian Writer and Illustrator
Sally Murphy, illustrations - Gabriel Evans Roses Are Blue
Walker Books 2014 $18.99pb 103pp ISBN 978 1 9222 4437 6 Themes: Car crashes/ Coping with change/ Disabled parents/
Family stories/ Mothers/ Stories in blank verse
When Amber Rose’s teacher announces that Mother’s Day is
coming and everyone’s mother is welcome, her stomach does a dive and her throat
feels tight. This is because Amber
Rose’s mother is different – very different. OK to have a mother who wears
bright clothes, has a stud in her nose or talks too loudly. But, Amber Rose’s
mother is in a wheel chair after a car crash and she can’t talk at all, her
neck is all floppy and her hands twitch. Without a hint of sentimentality Sally
Murphy gets right inside the mind of an eight-year-old girl trying to cope with
change. Don’t let the idea of blank verse put you off - it is wonderfully easy to read and gives the story such an
immediacy that everything relates to the plot. Definitely a read-at-one-sitting book.
Year 3 up/ Age 7 up
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