About this book

A classic Munsch tale with a fresh new look!

When Madison’s grandma comes for a visit, they visit a face painter in the park. Madison doesn’t want an ordinary picture on her face, though — not a scary face, not a regal tiger, not a delicate butterfly. Instead she asks the face painter for just one really real rose on her cheek. Then the family goes shopping . . . and suddenly the rose starts to GROW. “That’s nice,” says her dad as he looks at tools in the hardware store. “That’s nice,” says her mom as she looks at pots in the kitchen store. And at first Madison is intrigued by her amazing painting. But that all ends when she realizes that she has twenty-five roses growing on her, and there is a leaf coming out of her ear! Grandma is the one who finally listens. They go to the doctor, but the doctor doesn’t know what to do. Next they go to the garden store, where the clerk suggests weed killer. Madison refuses. She wants to be kind to the rose, so she buys a huge pot and goes home to take a nap next to it. When she wakes up, the rose is growing in the pot. Grandma takes it home and plants it in her garden, where itwaits for its next victim . . .

Behind the scenes

Robert Munsch met Madison and her mother at the Easter Seals Telethon. He had been volunteered to take part by Lauretta, the kid who is in Zoom! He was on TV for 10 hours! Madison was there, with a flower painted on her cheek. She took care of his coat when he was on TV and he made up this story for her on the spot. He made up lots of stories there but this was the one that he liked the best. Later, he visited her school to tell it to her class. Look at Me! takes place in Madison’s hometown of Orangeville, Ontario, and all the action takes place on the main street. The next year at the telethon, Madison had a butterfly painted on her face. She asked Munsch how the story was doing. He told her he was telling it a lot and that it was going to be a book!

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