Mabel Murple

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

It is refreshing to read a book where the hero is not forever cute or
invincible.

Mabel Murple lives in a world where everyone and everything is purple.
Mabel plays purple “blues” on her oboe; has a purple poodle named
Pierre; rides a purple motorcycle; and occasionally rollerblades nude
showing her purple derriere. But while Mabel seems comfortable with her
existence, she is not completely convinced that merely being purple is
everything there is to life. Maybe there is another color out there, she
dreams.

Sheree Fitch is an experienced poet and performer. She knows that words
have to do more than occasionally rhyme to make verse work. The verse in
this book is tight, whimsical, and a pleasure to read. Maryann
Kovalski’s sketches nicely illustrate Fitch’s prose. Mabel’s world
is purple but not unbelievable. Highly recommended.