On the Horizon [antikvár]

Mr. Plumbean just wants to be himself. For some reason, this upsets the neighbors. The Big Orange written and illustrated by Daniel Manus Pinkwater Mr. Plumbean lived on a street where all the houses were the same. He liked it that way. So did everybody else on Mr. Plumbean's street. "This is a neat street they would say. Then one day . . . A sea gull flew over Mr. Plumbean's house. He was carrying a can of bright orange paint. (No one knows why.) And he dropped the can (no one knows why) right over Mr. Plumbean's house. It made a big orange splot on Mr. Plumbean's house. "Ooooh! Too bad!" everybody said. "Mr. Plumbean will have to paint his house again." 14