New Friends, True Friends, Stuck-Like-Glue-Friends - Hardcover

Kroll, Virginia L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802850855 ISBN 13: 9780802850850

Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co, 1994

Synopsis

Illustrations and rhyming text provide a look at all kinds of friendships

About this title

About the Author:

Virginia Kroll was born in Buffalo, New York. She attendedthe State University of New York at Buffalo and CanisiusCollege and later became a fifth-grade teacher in theBuffalo area. She has written numerous short stories,articles, poems, and books, including I Wanted to KnowAll about God (Eerdmans, 1994) and Masai and I(Four Winds Press, 1992). Virginia is married and has sixchildren, one grandchild, and 49 pets.

From Publishers Weekly:

Kroll's (I Wanted to Know All About God) text and cartoon animator Rosely's art share perkiness aplenty, but neither extends the value of the other. The three-part rhymes don't lead anywhere: the statement "Wriggly friends/ Squiggly friends/ Laughing and giggly friends" accompanies a random scene of a school hallway, for instance. The brightly hued gouaches of multiracial children come from the simplicity school of cartooning, where large round heads top undersize, boxy bodies. The style is larky but perhaps not suited to the task: the Asian American children end up with slits for eyes, the African Americans list toward the beige end of the colored space. A slight offering. Ages 3-5.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802850855
• ISBN 13: 9780802850850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Rosely Rose