Friends, The [Mass Market Paperback]

Rosa Guy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1981

Sam and Alice are the best of friends. One day, while playing on the farm they find an egg and decide to take it back to the farmhouse. The egg breaks and the children fall out. Then they find another and this time they take the egg all the way home to Sam's mum, friends once more.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 1--Sam and Alice are spending the day together on Sam's farm. They hear the clucking that heralds the laying of an egg, find the egg, begin to take it to Sam's house, quarrel, break the egg, hear more clucking, find a new egg, and transport it triumphantly home. This simple tale of anger and reconciliation is sweetly illustrated in double-spread, sunlit, colored-pencil illustrations. Lewis knows her young audience and she knows how to render enough detail in her drawings to tousle the children's hair and make readers yearn to pat the sheep dog. She shows the clutter of the barn and the varied vegetation around it and, at the same time, directs youngsters' attention to the central figures in the story. You can almost smell the hay. Masterful.

Miriam Lang Budin, Mt. Kisco Public Library, NY

Copyright 1998 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam (July 1, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553265199
• ISBN-13: 978-0553265194
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,752,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet, Wonderful Story, September 16, 2008

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Mom of Two Boys (Fairfax, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friends (Paperback)

I have such wonderful memories of reading this book to my son. The two children explore a farm, get in an argument, make up and explore some more. We always loved the Kim Lewis books. Her prose are so gentle and bring you into her world and the illustrations are lovely. I highly recommend any and all of her works.

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Book, March 11, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Friends (Hardcover)

Sam and Alice were friends who liked to play on the farm. One day they heard a loud clucking noise coming from the hen house. They ran to see what it was and found that the hen had laid an egg. Sam and Alice decided to put the egg in a bucket and take it home in the wheelbarrow. Sam held the egg out to Glen the dog to show him what they had found, and while doing that he dropped it. The egg smashed as it fell on the ground. Just then Sam and Alice heard the noise again and went running to find another egg. Then they put it in the wheelbarrow and took it home to their mom. They were quite pleased with themselves for finding the egg and showed it off to everyone. I liked this book because it was about two kids who just had fun playing on the farm. They had a blast out of the littlest things, that as teenagers and as we get older we don't think much of. I would recommend this book because it is just a simple story about two friends...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Noting an error, January 17, 1998

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[e-mail] (Battle Creek, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friends (Hardcover)

I believe there is an error on your web page. The author you get when clicking on the interview is not the same Kim Lewis who wrote Friends. She talks about the novel Loving Becky and she lives in the US. Doesn't Kim Lewis who wrote Friends, Floss, First Snow etc. live in the U. K.? I love her children's books and doubt if she wrote the love novel.