To Blend Or Not To Blend: Matchy Matchy by Erin McGill

MY NAME IS MARIA, BUT YOU MIGHT AS WELL CALL ME MATCHY MATCHY.

Maria's mother has a mania for matching. Maria's socks  match her shoes, which match her headband, which matches her dress, which even matches her chair!

EVEN MY UNDERWEAR MATCHES.

Maria has had it with blending in with the furniture. Not to mention the walls. She designs her manifesto.

She transforms herself into a one-girl protest march-with signs.

MARIA'S MATCHLESS MARCH!

JOIN THE MOVEMENT.

SAY NO

TO

SWEATER SETS!

But Mom has her own manifesto--decreeing pink and red for everything on Valentine's Day, commanding holiday sweaters for every season, and coordinated accessories for everything.

Maria fights back with her own merry mixes--foofy, feathery, stripey, mixed animal prints, with checks and plaids.

But, in Erin McGill's stylish latest, Matchy Matchy (Cameron Books, 2019), there comes a time to call a truce in the pattern wars, as Mom makes a cameo appearance in a dizzy combo of polka dots and petunias and the two agree to disagree in the "I Gotta Be Me" conclusion. A fun book for mothers and daughters to laugh together with, along with a little lesson on compromise.