Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 44 Publisher: Sandpiper Everything looks Rosier when you make a friend! Iris is sure that life in her new home will be just awful There is nothing to do and no one to play with in the country. Iris will never be happy there. Then Grandpa suggests a walk. Down the road and around the bend. they discover a huge green tree. a secret hideaway - and a boy named Walter. Maybe life far from the city won ' t be so lonely after all. About the Authors: Elissa Haden Guest is the coauthor of Girl Stuff: A Survival Guide to Growing Up. She lives in San Francisco. California. Christine Davenier has illustrated numerous children's books. including Very Best (Almost) Friends: Poems of Friendship. She lives in Paris. When Iris moves to the country. she misses the city where she formerly lived; but with the help of a new friend named Walter. she learns to adju...
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Review:
* "Splendid...Readers will delight in the youngsters' friendship."--School Library Journal, starred review "Iris and Walter will join Frog and Toad and Henry and Mudge in a prominent place on the easy-reading shelves."--Bulletin A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year An ALA Notable Children's Book A Pen Center West Literary Award Winner A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
* -Splendid...Readers will delight in the youngsters' friendship.---School Library Journal, starred review -Iris and Walter will join Frog and Toad and Henry and Mudge in a prominent place on the easy-reading shelves.---Bulletin A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year An ALA Notable Children's Book A Pen Center West Literary Award Winner A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
About the Author:
ELISSA HADEN GUEST is the award-winning author of the Iris and Walter series. She lives in San Francisco, California.
CHRISTINE DAVENIER is the acclaimed illustrator of the Iris and Walter books, and she received a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year Award for The First Thing My Mama Told Me by Susan Marie Swanson. She lives in Paris.
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