About this book

There's nothing more beautiful than a smart kid!

Julie wants to be BEEEEEEAUTIFUL! She's saved up all her money and robbed her little brother's piggy bank to buy some MMMMMAKEUP. Julie buys all kinds of makeup: red and purple stuff for her hair, green stuff for her cheeks, black stuff for her lips and yellow stuff for her eyes. When she looks in the mirror she thinks, "Oh! I am as pretty as a movie star." What she can't understand is why her parents don't seem to agree. Her mother screams, her father faints, and it isn't until Julie comes downstairs wearing her "regular face" that she learns she is beautiful with no makeup on at all.

Munsch's unique brand of humour will remind children that they are beautiful just the way they are, as they laugh throughout this hilarious new story.

Behind the scenes

In November of 1984, Robert Munsch was supposed to be telling stories at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. But he didn’t make it to the show because he got stuck in a three-day blizzard on Victoria Island in the Arctic Ocean. When he finally got to Yellowknife, he did a quick replacement show for anyone who could come. There were lots of really little kids — and two teenage girls. He wanted to use one of the teenage girls in a story, but he didn’t have any good stories for teenage girls. So he told a makeup story, because the girls were wearing lots of makeup. Munsch left right after the show and never got to talk to the girl in the makeup story. He even forgot her name. Fifteen years later, when he wanted to make the story into a book, he decided to use his daughter Julie, who loved to do face painting and makeup when she was growing up. The last picture in the book, where Julie is doing dress-up, is based on a real photo.

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