Emily’s Blue Period

Emily’s Blue Period

Written by: Cathleen Daly
Illustrated by: Lisa Brown
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press (June 17, 2014)

Emily wants to be an artist. She likes painting and loves the way artists like Pablo Picasso mixed things up. Emily’s life is a little mixed up right now. Her dad doesn't live at home anymore, and it feels like everything around her is changing. “When Picasso was sad for a while,” says Emily, “he only painted in blue. And now I am in my blue period.”