Iris in Violet is a trip down the rabbit hole --- again! But, unlike Alice in Alice in Wonderland, it isn't a rabbit that Iris follows but the whirling, swirling flight of a blackbird that leads her through a dream world of strange and beautiful places, filled with strange and beautiful things. There's the puddle mermaid because, we discover, puddles have mermaids just as teardrops do. There's the turtle whose shell is like a chest of drawers...