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My Friend, Loonie
With a good friend like Loonie the yellow balloon, anything is possible. From neighborhood walks to reading aloud in bed to dance parties in your room, Loonie makes each activity a little brighter, a little fuller of sunshine. But as one child discovers with sadness, when it's time for Loonie to float away home, the sunshine goes, too. It's not as fun to have a dance party alone. And while tending to the garden helps a little bit, the world outside the window is silent and gray. Until, one day, as flowers start to push up from the soil, big and full of hope, the memory of Loonie begins to emerge in unexpected places. With tender empathy, and charming and whimsical art by Ashling Lindsay, Printz Award winner Nina LaCour illuminates the childhood companions that bring a little magic to the world.
Book Details
- Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
- Publish Date: Mar 28th, 2023
- Pages: 32
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 10.70in - 9.30in - 0.50in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9781536213935
- Recommended age: 04-07
- Categories: • Imagination & Play• Social Themes - Friendship• Family - General (see also headings under Social Themes)
About the Author
Ashling Lindsay is the illustrator of several books for children, including The Night Box by Louise Greig, which was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and The Tide by Clare Helen Welsh, a Crystal Kite Award winner. She is also the illustrator of an Alan Turing biography for the best-selling series Little People, Big Dreams. Ashling Lindsay lives in Belfast, Ireland.
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Reading highlights from April 2023: 💚The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of by Kirsten W. Larson 💚An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera 💚My Friend, Loonie by Nina LaCour 💚Big Tree by Brian Selznick https://t.co/3MUJ1PwauL
Praise for this book
--Kirkus Reviews
Mixed-media illustrations employ changing tones to emphasize the girl's feelings. . . the story expresses emotion in a way that children may recognize and understand.
--Booklist
Styling gives the little girl ownership of her narrative and the depictions of her feelings--joy at activities with Loonie, sorrow at its absence, and the eventual glimmer of hope--in corresponding vivid or desaturated hues.
--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
A big, bright yellow balloon represents beats of friendship and mourning in LaCour's tender, well-paced tale. . . . The pages capture the very real emotional weight that children can attach to inanimate objects in this gentle introduction to loss.
--Publishers Weekly
A very gentle tale of friendship made and lost and its lingering impact. . . . Children will understand the emotional journey of the protagonist and have stories of connections made and lost ready to share by the end of this charming and heartfelt tale.
--School Library Journal