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"A Taste of Colored Water" Synopsis

You could blame Abbey Finch. 

If she hadn't come back from town with tales of a fountain bubbling forth with "colored" water, LuLu and Jelly would not have needed to go see for themselves. But it's not Abbey's fault. It's the early 1960s and colored water isn't the fruit-flavored, Technicolor wonder that LuLu and Jelly are expecting. And having a drink doesn't come without a price. 

Celebrated author/illustrator Matt Faulkner combines colloquial, down-home storytelling and timeless images of pastoral America to create a thought-provoking account of what happens when the naive and whimsical imagination of a child is confounded by the reality of intolerance.

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Matt grew up in a small town outside of Boston, Massachusetts. He was born in 1961 and went to Parmenter Elementary. From an early age Matt loved to draw. One of his first memories is being caught by his sister Stacey as he was drawing on his parents brand new kitchen table with a ball point pen. No paper, just table. Everybody was pretty mad until they saw the picture he was drawing. It was a fairly close likeness of the family's dog.