Lissy's Friends - Hardcover

Lin, Grace

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670060720 ISBN 13: 9780670060726

Publisher: Viking Juvenile, 2007

Synopsis

What do you do when you’re the new girl at school? If you’re Lissy, you make a friend. A paper friend. And to Lissy’s surprise, her little origami bird opens his eyes and says hello! So she quickly makes more friends. And soon Lissy has more friends than she can count!

But what do you do when your friends have to leave? If you’re Lissy, you make another friend . . . but this time one that stays.

Utterly imaginative and charming, Lissy’s Friends is a fresh take on the importance of friendship.

About this title

About the Author:

Grace Lin lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has written and illustrated many children’s books, including Year of the Dog and Dim Sum for Everyone.

From Booklist:

During her first day at her new school, Lissy feels ignored, so while eating lunch alone, she creates an origami bird to keep her company. Then the bird, which she names Menu, magically flutters to life. With Menu in her pocket, Lissy feels better, and she folds more paper friends. At the playground, Lissy spins her menagerie on the merry-go-'round and loses them in the wind, but happily, a girl finds and returns Menu, and a new friendship begins. With a minimal, evenly paced text, Lin's story captures authentic new-student feelings. Like many kids, Lissy works through her loneliness privately, rather than by telling a parent, but her inventive methods will reassure kids. Lin's bright, cheerful paintings, enlivened with colorful, origami-paper-inspired patterns, boost the story's comforting tone, and a final image, showing Lissy's blown-away paper friends in Paris enjoying coffee, adds to the whimsy. Origami instructions appear on the endpapers. A solid choice for children harboring new-school anxieties, this will partner well with Helen Stephens' Blue Horse (2003), which has a similar premise. Engberg, Gillian
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Juvenile
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670060720
• ISBN 13: 9780670060726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40