Review: BEST FRIENDS OVERLOOK DIFFERENCES
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
How sad it was for Queen-a-Bella! Her sister, who could've been an automatic best friend, shut her out and wouldn't let her play when another friend came over. What a rotten attitude!But the author of this book knew our children would face rotten attitudes and used Queen-a-Bella to show them how to deal with people like that. Queen-a-Bella goes out to search for her own friend.As a child of the forest, that could be dangerous. She does run into danger, but mostly she runs into animals who talk about their differences. It's up to Queen-a-Bella to find the one quality she and her future best friend have in common.You and your child might talk about both, the things you both like (have in common) and the things that are different between you. Don't dwell on your differences; explain that opinions change all the time. Tell your child there was a time they would only eat cheese pizza! (Or tell them there was a time YOU would only eat cheese pizza.)Also, the word Bella means beautiful. This little doe (female rabbit) was just as pretty inside as she was outside. Talk about the things that make a person, or a doe, pretty inside.