Customer Reviews

Peach and Blue (Dragonfly Books)

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I was introduced to this book 4 years ago at an Indiana State Primetime Meeting. The speaker read the book and I was in awe. It touched my heart. It not only is a children's book, but one of the best adult books I have read in a long time. I have given over 20 copies as gifts. Our principal's wife was dying with cancer, and I gave her a copy. "Nothing is forever, but for now I have you and you have me." What beautiful words. My class gave the book to me one year. I am currently writing a grant to use this for a spin-off for a 4-6 week unit. I would love to make costumes for my K-2 class to perform for the other classes and for a PTO meeting.

Thank you Sarah Kilborne!!!!!

Peach and Blue is a wonderful story, that I would recommend to everyone. It is also a learning tool about friendship, caring, and appreciating the beauty of nature. This is a story everyone can relate to. The illustrations are as detailed and colorful as Peach's view of the world. Everyone should at one time read Peach and Blue. I guarantee it will change your view of the world. After you read Peach and Blue, you will never look at a rainbow of a sunset the same again.

I love this book. With it's beautiful, colorful illustrations and it's sweet story of the friendship between a frog and a peach, it's a real heart warmer. Blue (the frog) helps Peach to 'escape' from her tree before she gets eaten and Peach, in turn, helps Blue to see the world as a more beautiful place. My three year old son loves this book and so do I. It teaches about friendship and to not take things for granted. Even if you don't have children, but love children's books, this one is a keeper!

This book makes for an excellent lesson plan, when teaching children about the differences between people, and about being compassionate and caring to one another. This book must be read with these deeper types of meaning in mind, as it is not just simply a story about a frog befriending a fruit. It is also a story which deals with the subject matter of death and dying, and reminded me of "The Fall of Freddy Leaf" by Leo Buscalia, and also somehow brought to mind the book "I'll Love You Forever", as this is a book which also adeptly deals with the cycle of life and death. I liked it very much, and Steve Johnsons' and Lou Fanchers' illustrations are beautifully done.

I am in Kindergarten and my teacher read us this book twice. One of the things I liked about this book is that Peach and Blue became friends in one day. This week our theme is friendship. Peach and Blue are friends because they treated each other so nice. The pictures looked like it really happened. My class loves it so much.

I have to laugh at some of the other reviews of this book. "Sentimental slop"? Okay, that reviewer has his opinion. If this is slop, then I'm hopelessly sloppy. And, sure, the peach is going to "rot " (that reviewer must be a comedian), but little kids don't know that!

This is a tale of caring, togetherness, appreciating the beauty in what we sometimes overlook, working together to achieve a goal, and pure friendship. All great attributes for children to be exposed to and for us adults to be reminded of.

We don't read this book often, but I'm glad we have it. A friendship between a toad and a peach doesn't seem like a story, but my sons and I enjoy it every time we read it. I especially like the ending. It's all about caring but is so open to interpretation that I've used it to teach them about love, friends, frogs and even dying.

My kids and I read this when they were little. They loved the story and illustrations and the way Mom got tears in her eyes when she read it aloud. The illustrations are rich and emotive and the story is sublime. Whenever I read this book, new analogies come to mind for the characters--sometimes I think that Peach is confined a bit like a person in a wheelchair, and Blue takes her around....increasing her mobility as she reciprocates by opening his mind to new observations. Peach and Blue has a treasured place in our family library.

Peach and Blue is a heartwarming story Our entire school read the book for a literacy program so we could be a community of readers. We would recommend this book to children and adults of all ages. This story taught us about friendship and respecting our environment. The illustrations were detailed and colorful. We are looking forward to reading other books by Sarah S. Kilborne.

Such a SPECIAL book! Beautifully illustrated and a story that will just melt you. The unlikely pairing of a frog and a peach (that some other reviewers found strange) I think is the whole point of this book. Two very different little souls who come together -- with "seemingly" nothing in common -- find an extraordinary friendship in each other. Through their different experiences in their very different worlds (stuck on a tree, and the by the river) learn from each other about the joy and tenuous nature of being alive and the beauty that surrounds us every day that we tend to take for granted.