Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot
Author: Anna Branford
Illustrator: Sarah Davis
Book 1 in the Violet Mackerel series
Pages: 112
Published: 2010
Age: 6+
Violet Mackerel thinks she would quite like to own the blue china bird at the Saturday markets. This is not just a silly wish. It is instead the start of a very important idea. But what she needs is a plot. A brilliant plot.
This creative little girl always strives to think outside the box, so when she spots a small china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it—and her methods are anything but ordinary!
Children's Book Council of Australia Award Nominee for Younger Readers Book of the Year (2011); Children's Book Council of Australia Award Honour Book (2011)
About the Violet Mackerel Series
Books in series order
- 1.Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot(2010)
- 2.Violet Mackerel's Remarkable Recovery(2011)
- 3.Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat(2011)
- 4.Violet Mackerel's Personal Space(2012)
- 5.Violet Mackerel's Possible Friend(2013)
- 6.Violet Mackerel's Pocket Protest(2013)
- 7.Violet Mackerel's Helpful Suggestion(2014)
- 8.Violet Mackerel's Formal Occasion(2015)
- +How to Make Small Things with Violet Mackerel(2014)
Reading age: 6+ years
Introducing Violet Mackerel, a charismatic new chapter book star with a zest for life and an endearing, relatable voice akin to Ramona Quimby and Junie B. Jones.
Violet is a seven-year-old with a knack for appreciating the smallest things in life. Her “Theory of Finding Small Things” states that the moment of finding a tiny treasure usually coincides with the moment of having a genius idea. This irresistibly charming series starring Violet and her family has pitch-perfect perspective and plenty of laugh-out-loud humor.