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A Taste of Colored Water
By Faulkner, Matt
- ISBN
- 978-1-41691-629-1
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2008
Gr 1-5 Childhood innocence collides with the realities of racial hatred in this sensitive story. In a small Southern 1960s town, Jelly and LuLu thrill to their friend's tales of visiting the big city and seeing "water bubblers" labeled "Colored," and they vow to find a way to taste such miraculous water for themselves. "Cherry, lemon, orange, and appleall those flavors in one gulp!" LuLu muses. The white cousins get their chance when Jelly's father needs to pick up a part for his tractor, and they arrive i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Two cousins from a rural Southern community find out that city bubblers dispense "colored water." Eager to see for themselves, they ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
