The Purple Grasshopper
by Hannah Qizilbash
Hi! Have you ever felt like you didn’t fit in? Well, the purple grasshopper has. All of the other grasshoppers are green, and they don’t want to play with someone who’s different.
The purple grasshopper is lonely and wishes that she had someone to play with. All of the other grasshoppers make fun of her because of her purple color. One day, the purple grasshopper finds a green leaf. She rubs up against it and turns dark green. Then she goes up to all of the other grasshoppers and they’re all amazed. “She’s the greenest grasshopper we’ve ever seen!” they shouted. But the purple grasshopper felt bad. She wanted to tell them the truth about who she was.
I wish that the author had given the purple grasshopper a name. I felt like I would have connected with her more if she had had a name.
I loved how this book had a moral that you could easily find. It’s a great book for little kids because it shows them that you don’t have to hide who you are – that being yourself is better than fitting in.
This book reminded me of the book You Are Special by Max Lucado. It’s a book about a wooden doll who didn’t feel appreciated, but he learns, with the help of his creator, to not care what other people think.
Will the purple grasshopper learn to be herself, or will she always pretend to be someone she isn’t? As I always say, read the book to find out!
A few helpful things I like to say about the books I read:
“Run and Get Mom” (how I describe the scariness factor – zero being not scary at all and five being majorly scary): 0
“Yucky-Lovey Stuff” (how I describe the romance factor – zero having no yucky-lovey parts in it and five having major yucky-lovey parts): 0
I give this book 5 wands.
This book is a great book for little kids. It will teach them how to accept their true self even when they don’t feel like they fit in.
Source: Review Copy