Review of
How Joe the Bear and Sam the Mouse Got
Together, by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
Five out of five stars
Persistent friendship despite differences
Joe the bear is
of course large, and Sam is relatively very small. When they greet each other,
one must look high up and the other way down. They want to keep each other’s
companionship, so they search for things that they can do together. Unfortunately,
even though they find things that they like to do, in all cases they want to do
the tasks in a different and incompatible manner.
Finally, they
discover that there is something that they can do together and that is eating
ice cream at three o’clock. The book closes with the two eating their ice
cream, Joe with very large glasses and Sam with small ones more his size.
This is a
delightful book of differences and how they can be resolved. Friends can
approach and do things differently and still find something to cement the
companionship. The text is simple and the sentences are short.
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