Chrysanthemum (book)

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Chrysanthemum (ISBN 0-688-09699-9) is the title of a 1991 children's book by the American writer and illustrator Kevin Henkes. The plot deals with a young mouse named Chrysanthemum, who loves her name until classmates criticize it. However, a pregnant teacher defends her because the teacher's name is Delphinium.