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A Friend's Tale (2009)

by Daniel Kirk(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0810989271 (ISBN13: 9780810989276)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Harry N. Abrams

series

Library Mouse

review 1: Sam is a mouse that lives in the library. He loves to read and write and he writes small books, that the students love to read. Nobody knows who this Sam is that writes all this little books. One day Tom discovered Sam's writing. He wanted to become Sam's friend, so he wrote him a letter. Sam read the letter and drew illustrations for it, they were two little boy mice. He turned this letter in as his book assignment, it was a collaborative piece of work, Tom wrote the words and Sam drew the pictures. This is a good book to teach the children about creative writing and how they can write books and draw their own illustrations for it. This could be a very fun activity and activate their imagination and creativity.
review 2: I didn't like this one as much as I did... more the first Library Mouse book. In this story, the children in the library's Writers and Illustrators Club (neat idea!) have to pair up to produce a book. One boy, Tom, is left without a partner, and through serendipity, Sam, the Library Mouse, ends up illustrating the book he writes. Tom knows that Sam is a mouse and that Sam values his anonymity, but all the kids are asking Tom to introduce them to Sam. Will he betray Sam's secret identity? I still don't like the idea of Sam dressed in people clothes. Why can't he just be a mouse? Disappointing. less

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