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A playful look at sibling love that celebrates the special bond of sisters

A little sister envies her big sister: for being so tall, for having all her grown-up teeth, for swinging so high at the playground.
But it turns out her big sister admires her just as much: for being so funny, for doing her famous wiggle dance, for being her little sister!
In this heartwarming and playful story of mutual sibling appreciation, Giselle Potter perfectly reflects how we all want to be someone else sometimes—but that at the end of the day, it’s best to be exactly who we are!

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ISBN-13:	9781419746710
Publisher:	Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	06/22/2021
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Giselle Potter and her sister, Chloe, traveled a lot with their parents’ puppet theater. They often had just each other for companionship and therefore became very close. So Potter feels so lucky to have two daughters who are also very close. Watching their relationship, she is reminded of the unique, unmatchable bond of sisters. Potter has illustrated more than thirty children's books, and many of the books she both wrote and illustrated are either about or inspired by sisters.

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04/12/2021
In this slowly unfolding meditation on the complicated dimensions of sisterhood, two white-skinned sisters with pink cheeks work through their thoughts on the topic. Little sisters, the younger child posits, have it rough: “I have to wear your hand-me-downs with ice-cream stains and holes.” But so do older sisters, says the other, mournfully trying on a pair of cowboy boots: “I grow out of all my favorite things and have to give them to you.” Potter (Try It! How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat) works out the privileges and drawbacks of age in quiet, intimate steps that sometimes turn surreal (“A fish probably wishes it had legs and could gallop like a horse”). At last, the older sister admits that she envies her younger sister’s ability to make people laugh, then offers a loving insight: “And anyway, if there were two of me and none of you, there would be no little sister to give piggy-back rides to.” “And no one could do this trick,” says the little sister, hanging upside down from a tree branch. Watercolor and ink paintings by Potter feature classic props of domestic play—tea sets and high-heeled dress-up shoes—in an intimately observed, grass-is-greener distillation of two siblings’ experience. Ages 4–8. Agent: Jennifer Laughran, Andrea Brown Literary. (June)

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"Older and younger sibs will likely find much that resonates and reassures, including how the sisters uplift, inspire, and support each other."

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2021-03-31
Two sisters declare their admiration for each other.
The book opens with the sisters comparing their lots in life. The younger grouses about how she consistently inherits her sister’s hands-me-downs, but the older has a different perspective: “I grow out of all my favorite things and have to give them to you.” Things shift when they both start imagining how animals must feel: A fish might wish it had legs and could gallop as a horse does, though a horse might wish it could hop a ride for once. Each sister then shares instances in which she wishes she could be the other. This results in a series of compliments to each other, which also makes each sibling see their respective strengths. “It’s best if there is one of you and of me,” they decide. Siblings everywhere will recognize the detailed, closely observed grievances (the hand-me-downs the younger sister receives have “ice cream stains and holes”) as well as the tight bonds that siblings can develop: Who else but the older sister is going to read to the younger one at night? In many of the spreads, the sisters are outside, nary an adult in sight, the palette featuring the cool greens and teals of the grass and sky. A warm, eye-catching shade of pink, the same that adorns the book’s title, appears sparingly on nearly every spread. The sisters present White, rendered in Potter’s inimitable folk art–like style. (This book was reviewed digitally with 10.5-by-17-inch double-page spreads viewed at actual size.)
Sisterly devotion beyond compare. (Picture book. 4-10)

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