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Picture Book Author Cat Min to discuss latest book March 5 ×
On Friday, March 5 at 10 a.m. Hoboken’s Little City Books will host Jersey City resident Cat Min, who will read and discuss her new picture book Shy Willow, an illustrated story about shyness, the power of empathy, and what it means to make a friend.
The book is published by Levine Querido, an award-winning children’s book publisher that has recently moved to Hoboken.
Min is an illustrator, animator, and writer who grew up in Hong Kong, where she spent most of her childhood drawing and making comic books out of printer paper and staples with her best friend.
Show and Tell: 4 Picture Books About Friendship
Overcoming shyness and isolation via notes, pictures and a pine cone.
By Sarah Harrison Smith
By Sandra Salsbury
By Jane Porter
FROM ARCHIE TO ZACK
From “Best Friend in the Whole World.”Credit.Sandra Salsbury
Who is the “Best Friend in the Whole World”? Could it be a pine cone? Seen in Sandra Salsbury’s velvet-hued watercolors, these seed pods have character. Some are spiky. Some look as if they’re doing the twist, or wearing tall, thatched hats. But friendship with a pine cone seems like … a one-way kind of thing.
Roland doesn’t notice. “A quiet life of drawing, and music, and drinking tea” has left this well-dressed young rabbit desperate for company. Sometimes he walks in the woods “hoping, just maybe,” to find a friend. Compared with the sequoia-like trees that tower over him, Roland is very small, and utterly alone. Hence the pine cone. Roland gives it a name and keeps it with him while he draws more