Thursday, November 14, 2019

Everybody Needs a Buddy by Ellen Jackson, Maddie Frost- ESSENTIAL

Everybody Needs a Buddy by Ellen Jackson. illustrated by Maddie Frost. BOARD BOOK. Simon & Schuster, 2019. $8. 9781534439726

BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K - ESSENTIAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

Jackson and Frost delight us with this fun and colorful board book about friendship.  “Everybody needs a buddy, whether clean or green or muddy! Everybody needs a friend, true and blue, who’s not pretend.” Focusing on all kinds of animal life, Everybody Needs a Buddy highlights our inner need for friendship and companionship.  Each page is detailed with amazing illustrations and perfectly rhymed text. The story ends with two little kids drawing with crayons while lazily lying on the lawn, both seemingly content and happy with their friendship.

The illustrations and colors in Everybody Needs a Buddy are inviting and bright  The background of each page turn uses one specific color scheme.  Everybody Needs a Buddy would equally be great in a unit on friendship or animal life.  We loved this book not only for the illustrations but for the tender sentiments shared. 

Reviewer: SL

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