These are great books for children that like books based on true stories about family.
Emma s rug.
A book for all ages.
It becomes shriveled with all the fluff gone.
Emma who copies her art from images she sees in her.
4 0 out of 5 stars emma s rug.
One day emma s mother washes the rug.
She sleeps with it by her bed.
Emma who copies her art from images she sees in her favorite fuzzy rug is sad when her mother washes the rug and damages it.
She later realizes that her creativity does not come from her rug but from inside her.
It asks the larger question what is inspiration and where does it come from.
Emma stops drawing and painting and eventually throws away her awards pencils paints brushes and the rug.
Emma s rug is a book about a girl named emma that gets a rug when she is born and she never steps on it but instead gets ideas to paint from it and wins lots of awards because of it.
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It is clear as we read this text that the rug is an extension of emma.
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She cuddles with it.
When she was born someone gave her a rug that as she grows becomes a vital part of her life.
Eventually sitting in her now empty room emma begins to see things in the wall and then in the trees outside that she knew from before.
Narrative with a bit of non fiction summary.