Clarence Goes Out West & Meets a Purple Horse by Jean Ekman Adams could  have written (and therefore read) in the 1980s or early 1990s.  That quirky “otherness” I associate with stories of my youth. They did not have a message per say but they had the only point being about friendship. There might have been a message, but it was too hidden to see. For me, Clarence and said purple horse has no “over-the-top” message; it is happy to be a book for fun. However, […]