The Pink Umbrella
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Perfect for fans of Amélie, this is a charming story about the power of friendship, love and pink polka dots to turn rainy days into sunny ones and sadness into joy.
When it's bright outside, Adele is the heart of her community, greeting everyone who comes into her café with arms wide open. But when it rains, she can't help but stay at home inside, under the covers. Because Adele takes such good care of her friends and customers, one of them decides to take care of her too, and piece by piece leaves her little gifts that help her find the joy in a gray, rainy day. Along with cute-as-a-button illustrations, The Pink Umbrella celebrates thoughtful acts of friendship.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Understated text and gauzy pencil-and-pastel artwork transport readers to a seaside village where social life revolves around the Polka-Dot Apron, a caf run by a young woman named Adele. "It's where everyone meets," writes French author Callot. "Where they cry, laugh, yell, argue and love." Adele herself "is the village's sun lively, sweet and sparkling," but her spirit plummets whenever the weather turns rainy: on one gray day, Godbout (When Santa Was a Baby) shows her scowling from beneath a floral magenta quilt, refusing to open the caf . Over a few sunny days, rain boots, a raincoat, and umbrella all bright pink show up at the Polka-Dot Apron. Readers will likely guess who is responsible (a handsome handyman named Lucas) before Adele does, and a subdued romantic undercurrent swells as she begins to appreciate the rain: "The wind was fresh, the drops slid off the leaves, the snails were out." It's a languid story, and mystery rain gear is a pretty low-key hook, but it's also an atmospheric portrait of village life and the small actions that build loving communities and relationships. Ages 6 9. Illustrator's)
