The lessons of life and learning how to read are ones that all children should learn

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	• Mr. Pine's Purple House Leonard Kessler Purple House Press, 2005 - 64 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The best book!

This was my favorite book growing up and I was so excited when I found it again and could share it with my kids (my original copy was damaged.) My kids love it too!

Mr. Pine doesn't want to have the same house as everyone else on the block but they all keep copying his changes to his house, until they all discover that being individuals is a good thing!

Great read!

The lessons of life and learning how to read are ones that all children should learn

This is one of the best children's books ever written. While the drawings were created using a minimal number of colors, (purple, black and white) they are more than adequate to demonstrate what is happening in the story. This is in fact a plus, because the purpose of the book is to encourage reading and elaborate illustrations will distract from that goal.
Mr. Pine lives on a street where all the houses look alike, so he wants his to be distinctive. His first and second attempts are to plant a pine tree and bush respectively. However, the neighbors are so impressed with his improvements that they do the same things, so all the houses once again look alike. After some deep thought, Mr. Pine decides to paint his house purple. After a couple of mishaps involving an errant baseball and an even more errant dog and a cat, he manages to finish the job.
The result raises the eyebrows of the neighbors, (Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. White and Mr. Gold) and they decide to paint their houses as well. Mr. Pine is distraught, thinking that they will all also paint their houses purple. Fortunately, each of them has decided to paint their house a non-purple color that is different from their name. At the end, Mr. Pine still has the only purple house on the street.
A delightful tale about being the value of being distinctive, the lessons of life and learning how to read are ones that all children should learn.

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One of our favorite stories....

We have had this book for our children and now are buying it for our grandchildren.....it is a keeper.....

41 years ago..

As a 6 year old, I received this book from my 9 year old sister as a present a birthday party. When I told every how much I "hated books and hated to read" she burst into tears. I spent the next year reading Mr. Pine's Purple house every day to prove to her how much I loved it...and I did. I recently purchase it for her 50th birthday and we all had a good laugh (and of course I read it again!) I love Mr. Pine and his thoughtful attempts to be different.

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Childhood

This was my favorite book when I was a child so I bought it to share with my children. They love the repitition and simple concepts.

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Mr. Pine lived on Vine Street in a little white house. "A white house is fine," said Mr. Pine, "but there are FIFTY white houses all in a line on Vine Street. How can I tell which house is mine?"

Mr. Pine had a big problem. But he solved that problem in his own special way. Mr. Pine's Purple House, first published in 1965, was a favorite children's book for many years. When it went out of print fans requested the return of the intrepid Mr. Pine. Well, Mr. Pine is back again, with his dog and his cat, his brushes and ladders, and lots of purple paint!

40th Anniversary Edition

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