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    Will You Be My Friend? Padded Board Book

    (Discover Little Nutbrown Hare's New Friendship in This Follow-Up to 'Guess How Much I Love You' For Toddlers & Preschoolers)

    Part of Guess How Much I Love You

    Author Sam McBratney
    Illustrated by Anita Jeram
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    $10.99 US
    Candlewick
    7.13"W x 8.31"H x 0.82"D   | 14 oz | 36 per carton
    On sale Dec 03, 2024 | 24 Pages | 9781536233551
    Age 0-3 years | Up to Preschool
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    The endearing follow-up to Guess How Much I Love You, now in a cozy padded board book edition! “Readers are likely to love it to the moon and back.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    Little Nutbrown Hare is out exploring on his own. Off he hops, along the path and through the grass, until he reaches Cloudy Mountain, where something extraordinary happens: he discovers a new friend. Now the fun can really begin! Three decades after we met the Nutbrown Hares in Guess How Much I Love You, this enchanting tale about friendship from the legendary Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram is capturing the hearts of seasoned fans—and everyone else—the world over.
    Jeram’s spacious, pale-toned, naturalistic outdoor scenes create a properly idyllic setting for this cozy development in a tender child-caregiver relationship—which hasn’t lost a bit of its appealing intimacy in the more than 25 years since its first appearance. As in the first, Big Nutbrown Hare is ungendered, facilitating pleasingly flexible readings. Readers are likely to love it to the moon and back.
    —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    Twenty-five years after publishing evergreen bestseller Guess How Much I Love You, the collaborators offer a similarly resonant sequel in which Little Nutbrown Hare goes exploring alone when Big Nutbrown Hare is preoccupied...McBratney’s strategically spare narrative leaves ample space for children to personalize the tale, whose affecting affirmation of independence and friendship plays out with corresponding authenticity in Jeram’s airy ink and watercolor paintings.
    —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    Recommended for purchase, this is a loving portrayal of a young child’s growing independence and the absolute bliss of finding a new friend.
    —School Library Journal
    Sam McBratney View titles by Sam McBratney
    Anita Jeram is the illustrator of GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU, the GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU Storybooks, and YOU'RE ALL MY FAVORITES, all by Sam McBratney. She also illustrated several acclaimed books by Amy Hest: LITTLE CHICK and a series about Sam and Mrs. Bear. She lives in Northern Ireland. View titles by Anita Jeram

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    The endearing follow-up to Guess How Much I Love You, now in a cozy padded board book edition! “Readers are likely to love it to the moon and back.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    Little Nutbrown Hare is out exploring on his own. Off he hops, along the path and through the grass, until he reaches Cloudy Mountain, where something extraordinary happens: he discovers a new friend. Now the fun can really begin! Three decades after we met the Nutbrown Hares in Guess How Much I Love You, this enchanting tale about friendship from the legendary Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram is capturing the hearts of seasoned fans—and everyone else—the world over.

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    Jeram’s spacious, pale-toned, naturalistic outdoor scenes create a properly idyllic setting for this cozy development in a tender child-caregiver relationship—which hasn’t lost a bit of its appealing intimacy in the more than 25 years since its first appearance. As in the first, Big Nutbrown Hare is ungendered, facilitating pleasingly flexible readings. Readers are likely to love it to the moon and back.
    —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    Twenty-five years after publishing evergreen bestseller Guess How Much I Love You, the collaborators offer a similarly resonant sequel in which Little Nutbrown Hare goes exploring alone when Big Nutbrown Hare is preoccupied...McBratney’s strategically spare narrative leaves ample space for children to personalize the tale, whose affecting affirmation of independence and friendship plays out with corresponding authenticity in Jeram’s airy ink and watercolor paintings.
    —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    Recommended for purchase, this is a loving portrayal of a young child’s growing independence and the absolute bliss of finding a new friend.
    —School Library Journal

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    Sam McBratney View titles by Sam McBratney
    Anita Jeram is the illustrator of GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU, the GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU Storybooks, and YOU'RE ALL MY FAVORITES, all by Sam McBratney. She also illustrated several acclaimed books by Amy Hest: LITTLE CHICK and a series about Sam and Mrs. Bear. She lives in Northern Ireland. View titles by Anita Jeram

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