Your Best Friend, Kate

Brisson, Pat; Brown, Rick

ISBN 10: 0027143503 ISBN 13: 9780027143508

Publisher: Bradbury Press, 1989

Synopsis

Follow Kate and her family on their summer trip to Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Charleston, Savannah, Tallahassee, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Lexington, Columbus and Pittsburgh

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3-- Kate's letters to her best friend Lucy chronicle her family's four-week trip by car from New Jersey to Florida and back, visiting 11 states on the trip. Kate tells about the sights they see and adds a few facts such as state birds and flowers for most places. She reports all of the annoying things that her little brother Brian does, but there is a real sense of caring between the two as well. Kate's last letter is to comfort Brian, who is staying behind in Pennsylvania with Aunt Mag for two weeks--Kate did so last year, and knows how homesick he will be. Kate's letters are convincingly childlike. She reports those things that would impress a child. Brown's illustrations complement the text well. They have a casual, vacation-snapshot feel, and although facial features are limited to dots and lines, emotions are clear. Your Best Friend, Kate will offer young children a good basis for comparing and contrasting with Vera B. Williams' Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea (Greenwillow, 1988) and Dayal Khalsa's My Family Vacation (Potter, 1988). Less of a tour de force than the former and less of a memoir than the latter, Brisson's story will be more familiar to most young readers. --Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, N.J.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bradbury Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0027143503
• ISBN 13: 9780027143508
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32