It is a story about a girl named Brigid who loves to color with markers. First she begs her mother for markers that smell, then markers that make things look better than they are, and then super-indelible-never-come-off-until-your-dead-and-maybe-even-later markers. She promises with each set of markers that she won't draw on the floors, walls or on herself. Brigid is soon bored with drawing on paper with the super-indelible-never-come-off-until-your-dead-and-maybe-even-later markers and starts to draw on herself. first a fingernail, then her fingers, hands, and eventually her whole body.
To cover up her ill deed, she colors over top of all those bright colored patterns with a marker that makes things go back to their original color. When her mother asks her if she has washed her hands for dinner, Brigid answers yes. Her mother then smells her hands and takes her up to wash them again. The cover-up marker comes off to reveal the amazing patterns Brigid had drawn all over her body. Her mother then calls the doctor and has to figure out a way to get the markers off her daughter. She soon finds that Brigid has colored on more than herself with the super-indelible-never-come-off-until-your-dead-and-maybe-even-later markers.
This is a fun story written by Robert N. Munsch and illustrated by Helene Desputeaux. Some of my other childhood favorite books by Munsch include Something Good, Moira's Birthday, The Paper Bag Princess, and PIGS.
