Pub Date: May 21, 1987
Dewey: E
LCCN: 81006549
Lexile Code: 0470
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 04 to 08
Physical Info: 0.13" H x 10.06" L x 7.61" W ( 0.28 lbs) 32 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings | Friendship | Animals | Frogs & Toads | Reptiles & Amphibians | Strangers | Violence | Girls & Women | Boys & Men | Readers | Beginner | Books & Libraries | School & Education | Family | Adoption
Series: Mulberry Books
Description: When Robert's best friend Peter moves away, both are unhappy, but they learn that they can make new friends and still remain best friends.
Brief description:
With more than 60 fiction and nonfiction titles for children to her credit, Aliki has been delighting her many fans since her first book was published in 1960. Born in New Jersey, she now lives in New York City.
Aliki's books for young readers include the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out titles Digging Up Dinosaurs, Fossils Tell of Long Ago, My Feet, and My Hands. Other nonfiction books by Aliki include How a Book Is Made, Mummies Made in Egypt, My Visit to the Aquarium, My Visit to the Dinosaurs, My Visit to the Zoo, Wild and Woolly Mammoths, and William Shakespeare & the Globe.
Review Quotes: "Believable dialogue and realistic letters convey the loneliness when two friends move away, miss each other, and undergo discomfort until they find new friends, while still maintaining their own friendship. Upbeat all the way."--"Language Arts "Responds comfortingly to the unhappiness of the child who has been left behind." --"Horn Book "Readers will respond sympathetically to all of the boys' loneliness."--"ALA Booklist