Tag: friendship
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April 15, 2024
What is it that makes a friendship? Why are we sometimes inexplicably drawn to someone else? Orris and Timble is the story of a rat and an owl who (against all odds) become friends. It pleases me that Candlewick Press has made these little magnets for the rat and the owl—they seem, to me, a…
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February 7, 2017
On Friday morning, I flew to California to meet Minal Saldivar, the winner of Scholastic’s Raymie Nightingale Writing Contest. Minal wrote an essay about friendship—the power of it, the delicacy of it, the give-and-take of it, and the lastingness of it. Minal writes about an argument she had with her best friend, Izzy: “The most…