Making a Friend
By Tammi Sauer
Illustrated by Alison Friend
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. Picture Book.
I wanted to share another new winter picture bookāone that is quickly becoming one of my all-time-favorite books on friendship. In this book Beaver wants a friend. He tries to yell good morning to an owlāwho he wakes up. He tries to give a bunch of balloons to a porcupineāwhich gets popped. He tries to give a bunch of flowers to a skunkāwho takes offense. Basically Beaver is just no good at making a friend. Finally he decides to literally make a friend, by making a snowman. Along comes Raccoon who is also no-good at making friendsāso the two of them make the snowman together. Alas once the snow-friend is made, the friend turns out to be ācoldā by not playing or talking with them. Both Beaver and Raccoon are sad and dejectedā¦until they both realize that perhaps they did make a friend after all. This is a fun story with quite a few clever moments (both in fun text and hilarious expressions with Beaver and Raccoonās facesāespecially how their little eyeballs look). And basically, this is a good winter book to read to or with a friend. Splendid.
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