Ella Josephine and the Perfectly Imperfect Day: Book 3

Gr 1-5–It’s a perfect day in the third book of LaCour’s “Ella Josephine” series, and Ella notices everything going on around her pink apartment home on Poppy Hill. She notices her friend Cleo is opening “Poppy Hill Records,” a new record shop; but with no sign over the door, how will people find her perfect shop? Overnight, Ella hangs a perfect sign. When Ella’s two moms, Livy and Abby, enthusiastically encourage “passion over perfection!” in their art class, did they understand what ‘perfect’ meant to Ella, her friend Jacques, and his art? When the house residents said that the weather is always perfect and that tonight was a perfect night to go camping, did they spot that perfect little gray cloud in the sky? Ella noticed it. She also noticed that it wasn’t little anymore and it wasn’t alone. Was a perfect day about to turn into an imperfect one? As in the two previous books, young readers will welcome the simple vocabulary, chapter-driven story line, and easy-to-follow third-person narrative. The characters are clearly identified when they speak, and if their reading is interrupted, young readers will find it easy to jump back into the story when it is reading time again.