Best Friends' Handbook
Erica Orloff, Alexa Milo. Walker & Company, $7.95 (87pp) ISBN 978-0-8027-7645-7
Guidebooks and journals celebrate friendship and help kids cope with difficulty. The Best Friends' Handbook: The Totally Cool One-of-a-Kind Book About You and Your Best Friend by Erica Orloff and Alexa Milo, illus. by Carolyn Fisher, provides fill-in-the-blanks and picture frames in which to document the friendship. There are places to take inventory (""The ways my best friend is different from me are..."") and record stories (""The funniest thing that ever happened to my best friend and me was...""). A BFQ (Best Friend Quotient) quiz tests readers' knowledge about their buddy; a q&a section offers advice.
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Reviewed on: 10/01/2002
Genre: Nonfiction