The Big What Are Friends For? Storybook

Sally Grindley. Kingfisher, $16.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-7534-5556-2

JB (Jefferson Bear) and Figgy Twosocks star in The Big What Are Friends For? Storybook by Sally Grindley, illus. by Penny Dann, which contains a trio of previously published picture books: What Are Friends For? (1998); What Will I Do Without You? (1999); and Will You Forgive Me? (2001).

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