Returning for a visit after moving away, Peter worries that his best friend, Robert, might not like him anymore, in a reassuring tale that demonstrates the lasting power of true friendship.
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 1?Peter and Robert, introduced in We Are Best Friends (Greenwillow, 1982), are together again. As the boys look forward to Peter's two-week visit, they are both excited and a little apprehensive about how the other might have changed. All concern soon vanishes and they enjoy all the things they used to do. "They were as happy as only old friends can be." In natural conversation, the youngsters remember past shared experiences and compare new friends. Neighborhood children also welcome Peter back in a great reunion. Watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations are bright and joyous. A simple, reassuring story for friends everywhere.?Virginia Opocensky, formerly at Lincoln City Libraries, NE
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 3^-8. As a companion to all those books about children having to move away from their friends, here's a story of joyful reunion. At the end of Aliki's We Are Best Friends (1982), Peter had to move, and he had to part from his best friend, Robert. Now, in this upbeat sequel, Peter comes back for a visit. Aliki's clear, lovely pictures in pen, watercolor, and colored pencil show the friends a little uncertain at first ("Will he still like me?" ). Some things have changed, but soon they play and talk together, like old times. Peter meets Robert's new friend, and when they go to fly a paper airplane in the park, all the kids welcome Peter back. Although the best friends must part again, it will be fun to look forward to the next visit and fun to remember. Like Viorst's Alexander (see Starred Reviews, p.1949), this gentle picture book will comfort all those who cannot bear to say goodbye. Hazel Rochman
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Aliki is the author and illustrator of more than fifty books for children that are treasured by readers all over the world. Her many well-loved titles include My Visit to the Zoo, My Visit to the Aquarium, My Visit to the Dinosaurs, Wild and Woolly Mammoths, Tabby, and Those Summers. Aliki lives near the Globe theater, in London, England.
In Her Own Words..."Aliki grew up in Philadelphia in a big Greek family where everyone was busy creating and sharing their activities. She knew from the time she was in kindergarten that she wanted to bean artist, although music was also a natural talent. She was encouraged throughout her early life by her parents and by teachers she will never forget."She graduated from the Philadelphia Collegeof Art and started a career in advertising art. After she married Franz Brandenberg, Aliki continued her career in his country, Switzerland, where they lived for three years. It was there that she wrote and illustrated her first book, The Story of William Tell, which was published in England. When they moved to New York, Aliki wrote and illustrated My Five Senses--the book that changed the direction of her career and her life.
Although she had never thought of being a writer, Aliki has been making books ever since. Children's books, she says, are a combination of two things I love: words and pictures. I also love the privacy of books--both reading them and making them. Aliki writes fiction, in which she can express her feelings, and nonfiction research books about subjects she's interested in and wants to know more about. Each book is a new challenge; each is different, she says. The subject directs the way I illustrate a book, the same way friends bring out different parts of us. The challenge is to get the words right and then to make pictures that expand and enhance their meaning.""Besides her own books, Aliki has illustrated many written by Franz Brandenberg and other authors. Her two children are also in the arts. Jason is a filmmaker and Alexa is a children's book author-illustrator. They appear in almost all of her books as cats, mice, or themselves.
Aliki loves music, theater, cinema, museums, children, her cat, Nefertiti, and working in her garden in London, where she lives. She travels frequently to the U.S., Greece, Switzerland, and other parts of the world, though most of the time she is alone in her studio with the books she is working on--and Mozart."
In Her Own Words..."Aliki grew up in Philadelphia in a big Greek family where everyone was busy creating and sharing their activities. She knew from the time she was in kindergarten that she wanted to bean artist, although music was also a natural talent. She was encouraged throughout her early life by her parents and by teachers she will never forget."She graduated from the Philadelphia Collegeof Art and started a career in advertising art. After she married Franz Brandenberg, Aliki continued her career in his country, Switzerland, where they lived for three years. It was there that she wrote and illustrated her first book, The Story of William Tell, which was published in England. When they moved to New York, Aliki wrote and illustrated My Five Senses--the book that changed the direction of her career and her life.
Although she had never thought of being a writer, Aliki has been making books ever since. Children's books, she says, are a combination of two things I love: words and pictures. I also love the privacy of books--both reading them and making them. Aliki writes fiction, in which she can express her feelings, and nonfiction research books about subjects she's interested in and wants to know more about. Each book is a new challenge; each is different, she says. The subject directs the way I illustrate a book, the same way friends bring out different parts of us. The challenge is to get the words right and then to make pictures that expand and enhance their meaning.""Besides her own books, Aliki has illustrated many written by Franz Brandenberg and other authors. Her two children are also in the arts. Jason is a filmmaker and Alexa is a children's book author-illustrator. They appear in almost all of her books as cats, mice, or themselves.
Aliki loves music, theater, cinema, museums, children, her cat, Nefertiti, and working in her garden in London, where she lives. She travels frequently to the U.S., Greece, Switzerland, and other parts of the world, though most of the time she is alone in her studio with the books she is working on--and Mozart."
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This is a good book to show that relationships and people are always changing. Peter and Robert could see the changes in each other because they hadn't seen each other in a long time. If they had been together they probably wouldn't have noticed the changes. They both learned new things that were different from each other. But the core of their friendship was still there.
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