{"id":38918,"date":"2021-03-09T00:36:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38918"},"modified":"2021-03-09T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:39:46","slug":"review-of-the-word-for-friend-by-aidan-cassie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38918","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Word for Friend, by Aidan Cassie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/word_for_friend_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/word_for_friend_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39103\" \/><\/a><em>The Word for Friend<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Aidan Cassie<\/p>\n<p>Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2020.  36 pages.<br \/>\nReview written February 3, 2021, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>This bright picture book tells about a young pangolin named Kemala who loves to talk.  Her family moves to a new town and she\u2019s looking forward to making friends.<\/p>\n<p>But when she gets to her new school, all the children (animals) speak a different language.  Kemala curls into a ball while they play.<\/p>\n<p>Kemala is also good at cutting shadow pictures out of leaves with her sharp claws.  She ends up making friends using this skill.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the way the author had the other animals speaking Esperanto in their speech bubbles.  So it sounded like an authentic language, but every child who reads the book will understand Kemala finding the words strange.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also fun how her new friend isn\u2019t good at shadow pictures at first, but is willing to learn.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s information about Esperanto and about pangolins at the back.<\/p>\n<p>A fun story about making new friends with some details that surprised me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aidancassie.com\/\">aidancassie.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/mackids\/\">mackids.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374310467\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/word_for_friend.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/word_for_friend.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Word for Friend by Aidan Cassie Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2020. 36 pages. Review written February 3, 2021, from a library book This bright picture book tells about a young pangolin named Kemala who loves to talk. Her family moves to a new town and she\u2019s looking forward to making friends. 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