Even Better Than Sprinkles
A Story About Best Friends
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
When you find someone who agrees to be the back end of a unicorn costume, who names their goldfish after you, and is always willing to be the dragon when you play knights and dragons, you’ve found a best friend.
Having a best friend is the greatest feeling ever. But it’s terrible when something happens to break up that friendship. Now it feels like you are being hugged by a porcupine. Now it’s time to figure out how to repair a broken friendship. A good place to start is a homemade card with glitter everywhere and a special cupcake with lots of sprinkles. When you add an apology, it’s the best way back to being best friends.
This funny and sweet story is a guide to celebrating and caring for your besties even when you don't seem to agree.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Unicorns, cake sprinkles, and song mark this playtime-driven portrait of best-friend-dom, told in a wry second-person voice. Light comedy accompanies Skeers's descriptions of imbalanced dynamics between the story's BFFs. One friend, portrayed with brown skin, is oblivious to their own self-centered actions, while the other, shown with pink skin, tends to roll with the punches ("A friend will dress up in your homemade unicorn costume.... Even when your friend is the back half"). When the oblivious bestie "accidentally-on-purpose" blows out the candles on their bud's birthday cake, there's an understandable rupture between them. A subsequent apology seems driven, not by empathy or regret, but by the offending party's desire for a playmate, a conclusion that is used to signify the "magical" connection between best friends in a work that strains to be jubilant. Ages 4–8.
