My Best Friend by Fogliano, Julie

An NPR Best Book of the Year

New York Times bestselling author Julie Fogliano and Caldecott Honor winner Jillian Tamaki come together to tell a delightful story of first friendship.

she is my best friend i think
i never had a best friend so i'm not sure
but i think she is a really good best friend
because when we were drawing
she drew me
and i drew her.

What is a best friend, if not someone who laughs with you the whole entire day, especially when you pretend to be a pickle? This pitch-perfect picture book is a sweetly earnest, visually stunning celebration of the magic of friendship.

Author: Julie Fogliano
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 03/03/2020
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 10.40h x 7.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781534427228
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.8
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 506658 / My Best Friend


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/09/2019
School Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 56
Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 102
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2020 - Book Of Special Distinction
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2020 pg. 55
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2020 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Julie Fogliano is the New York Times bestselling author of And Then It's Spring and If You Want to See a Whale as well as the poetry collection When Green Becomes Tomatoes and the picture books If I Was the Sunshine, My Best Friend, and When's My Birthday. Recipient of the 2013 the Ezra Jack Keats award, her books have been translated into more than ten languages. Julie lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and three children. When she is not folding laundry or wondering what to make for dinner, she is staring out the window waiting for a book idea to fly by.

Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and artist best known for her graphic novels. This One Summer, cocreated with Mariko Tamaki, was awarded a Caldecott Honor, a Printz Honor, and an Eisner Award. She is the author-illustrator of They Say Blue and the illustrator of My Best Friend by Julie Fogliano. Jillian lives in Toronto.