Friends: True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships-ESSENTIAL

Thimmesh, Catherine. Friends: True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships, 32 pg.  Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011. $16.99. Inside cover: “They seem too different to be friends.  A tall camel and a tiny Vietnamese mini-pig? A wild polar bear and a tame sled dog? What could a delicate cat have in common with an orangutan?  With candid photographs and a spare prose, award-winning author Catherine Thimmesh invites us to wonder at the truth and mystery inherent in some of the most extraordinary friendships from around the world.”  Each page is filled with a short and perfect rhyme, then the true story of the animal’s unique friendship.  We enjoyed every minute of reading this book!  The photographs are amazing!  This is a perfect book about friendship and would be appropriate for all ages! Could be used in a unit on animals, friendship, poetry.  Pre-K.  EL (K-3).  EL.  Middle School. ESSENTIAL.  Reviewer: SL.