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Zolotow, Charlotte

The New Friend

48 pp. | Milky Way | November, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-990252-01-3 $17.99
New ed. (1986, Crowell)
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Benjamin Chaud. The narrator of this picture book had a dear friend and reminisces about the ordinary things they used to do together--until the "dear friend" found a "different friend." Zolotow's gentle, introspective text, honest about the narrator's anger and sadness, is now accompanied by new but vintage-feeling illustrations from Chaud, which carefully adhere to the speaker's point of view, giving only limited information about the "different friend." In particular, illustrations of a dream sequence imaginatively depict a nighttime-subconscious version of the woods where the children played and of a "new friend" for the speaker. A hopeful but not too neat story of a situation likely to be relatable to many.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2022

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