Illustrated by Dan AndreasenAbrams Books for Young Readers, 2010
$16.95
32 pages
Rating: 4/5
Endpapers: Light blue
This is a very cute story about friendship, about best friends, about enjoying the company and companionship of just each other - needing no other entertainment.
When Otis plans a surprise birthday party for this BFF Sydney, he puts the wrong date on the invitations....and no one shows up, of course, on the right date. All his planning doesn't go to waste, however. The two friends dress up and play and eat and have a blast together anyway.
Once again, it's the illustrations that I love most. Beautfiully inked black lines create the pictures, then they're colored in. The texture, the patterns, the facial expressions, the happiness, are all expressed in the illustrations. My favorite illustrations so far this year, I think!
This would be a great book for adults to give to their own BFFs!
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