Lawrence & Sophia
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
By the author of Click, Clack, Moo and the illustrator of The Lost House, here is an utterly endearing story about venturing out of your comfort zone and overcoming anxiety to help a friend.
Lawrence stays close to home because “out there” is too big and loud. Sophia stays high up in the tree branches because “down there” is too dark and dangerous. When they meet and become friends, they find ways to enjoy each other’s company without leaving their own safe spots . . . until a storm comes, and both are so worried about the other that they are finally able to take a huge, scary leap into the unknown. Together they feel brave, and the future is suddenly a lot more interesting.
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Pale-skinned young Lawrence is reluctant to head "out there," beyond his small cottage's backyard ("Out there was very big. Out there was very loud"). In desaturated images with electric-hued highlights, Brian Cronin (The Lost House) shows Lawrence safely within the fence, buried in a book. Sophia, a bird with fluffy blue feathers and a bright pink topknot, travels from tree to tree, avoiding the ground "down there" ("Down there was dark. Down there was bumpy"). When Sophia walks to the end of a long branch and spies Lawrence through his bedroom window, they become good friends, enjoying pastimes that don't require venturing out. (One spread shows Sophia perched high up, wearing a costume wig with long, lime-green braids as Lawrence declaims, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.") Eventually, Sophia moves her nest closer to Lawrence, who builds an outdoor tent to be closer to Sophia. And when rain and thunder drive the two to check on each other, each leaves their respective comfort zones to do so. In a lightly rib-tickling examination of fright and friendship, Doreen Cronin (Click, Clack, Moo) suggests that shared perspectives and accountable friends represent a promising path to wider vistas. Ages 4–8.
