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Keywords

aggression, anger, animals, apology, appreciation, attention, careers, caring, compromise, conflict resolution, consequences, dancing, decision making, embarrassment, emotions, envy, excitement, exercise, family, feelings, food, forgiveness, fun, honesty, learning, mouse, parents, performance, play, pretend, resentment, respect, revenge, role model, sadness, school, teaching, truth, worry, writing

Title

Lilly's purple plastic purse

Description

Lilly wants to be a teacher like Mr. Slinger. She always says wonderful things about him until one day he takes her purple plastic purse away. For revenge, Lilly draws a nasty picture of Mr. Slinger which makes her feel worse than before. This teaches Lilly that revenge is the wrong way to resolve conflict.

Author

Henkes, Kevin

Publisher

Greenwillow Books

Illustrator

ISBN

0-688-12897-1

City of Publication

New York

Year of Publication

1996

Author of Abstract

Abstract provided by Cory Holycross, 1999

Citation

Henkes, Kevin, “Lilly's purple plastic purse,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed June 4, 2023, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/6331.