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Kochan, Vera

What If Your Best Friend Were Blue?

24 pp. | Cavendish | September, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7614-5897-5 $12.99
(4) PS Illustrated by Viviana Garofoli. An offstage narrator asks a child questions about skin color: "What if your best friend were blue?" "What if a policewoman were green?" The child's answers ("Even if my best friend were blue, he'd still play soccer with me") sound canned; the text amounts to what well-meaning adults want children to hear. Hospitable acrylics provide a more kid-friendly vehicle for the message.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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