Customer Reviews

Mad About Plaid

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My second grade class loved this one! Super illustrations and great text (rhyming). Fun fun fun! You'll be reading and rereading this to your kids!

I thoughly enjoyed reading this book. It is a whimsical tale, perfect for a young child. The illistrations are charming and full of meticulous detail. This would be a perfect choice to read with a young child on a rainy, or as a bedtime story. This would be a wonderful choice for grandmothers and great-grandmothers to read or give to their grand children! I give it five stars :-)

I have always been a big fan of the funny little details in children's books. Ms.McElmurry has definately satisfied this for me.I love the part when Madison is sitting on her "sterilized" couch after the assault and has her little "sterile" booties and mittens on and eating lo-plaid snacks! It's so adorable to look at over and over. And needless to say, her story is so imaginative with a mix of light and dark that I like too. Oh, and be sure to read all the signs on the stores when the town catches the germ they are very funny too. Great work Jill!

My daughter (almost 3) is mad about this book! She wants to read it constantly. It's a little curious in that the author seems to speak in verse sometimes and not other times, but that's a small quibble.

Join many others in greeting this wonderful new character intoyour life and the lives of children you love. Guaranteed to pleaseadults as well as children-- should be on Granny Alert for gifts and perusal. Go to your favorite bookstaore and ask to see it. The illustrations and wit make it a treat!

Imagine living in a plaid, plaid world. This very imaginative rhyming story will have your young readers looking at plaid differently. To her surprise, young Madison finds a lonely plaid purse left in the park, and she vows to take care of it. But after she picks it up, Madison finds the purse causes a plaid virus to spread all over herself and across town.

"It crawled all over her jacket. It slithered under her hat. The plaid did a dance on her underpants."

Madison tries ditching the purse, but the plaid continues to spread and her mom diagnoses the "Plaid Curse." So Madison returns to the park and grabs the purse once again. This time, Madison comes up with a great idea--she turns it inside out, but then everything changes to the blue shade of the lining. But don't fret, Madison is a pro at curing the blues and from then on, the purse ends up coordinating with Madison's moods.

Once you read Mad About Plaid by Jill McElmurry, you'll be mad about this book!

My four-year-old daughter enjoyed the book, and the illustrations are spunky and colorful. I have one complaint. Why on earth did the main character have to be called Madison? The name Madeleine would have worked equally well. (In fact, I replace "Madison" with "Madeleine" whenever I read the book to my daughter.) I'm afraid that the book will seem quite dated in 10 years or so because the author didn't have the sense to give the main character a classic, real name.