How I Found a Friend
Irina Hale. Viking Children's Books, $12.5 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-670-84286-5
A boy tells of making friends with another child after their stuffed bears--left on a ledge together--exchange hats and then greetings. The boys' mutual surprise at finding the bears wearing each other's headgear prompts them to speak. Hale's soft, unadorned paintings create a homey mood appropriate to a tale of friendship. But the plot itself is slight and somewhat disingenuous, and does not fulfill the promise of cozy intimacy held out by the art. Ages 2-6. (Mar.)
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Reviewed on: 03/30/1992
Genre: Children's
Paperback - 978-0-590-29046-3