For Always Friends
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When a new neighbor becomes a best friend, everything feels perfect--until a few hurtful words put that friendship at risk. For Always Friends is a tender, relatable story about finding a best friend, making mistakes, and learning how true friendships grow stronger through kindness and forgiveness.
I watch your moving truck and dream. I hope you're coming to meet me.
Two boys, both lonely, just know there's a new friend around the corner. In the moment it takes to knock on a door, the boys simultaneously imagine a bond to last forever. Back-and-forth dialogue brings to life a future full of bike rides, hideouts, secret codes, and handshakes.
Time passes, the friends side-by-side, until . . . Buddies make mistakes. Mean words can hurt. But best friends learn to navigate the ups and downs of a lasting friendship.
Poetic text and vibrant illustrations reveal how dreams can blossom into reality. Together, the boys manifest a friendship rooted in joy, kindness, and forgiveness . . . for always.
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Tootie Nienow has been a school librarian, teacher, photographer, mother, social worker, soldier, and is the author of There Goes Patti McGee, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. She lives in Southern California and loves writing stories from her real-life experiences and things she totally makes up.
Katherine Ahmed was born and raised in New York and earned a BA degree in history and illustration at Eugene Lang College at The New School. In 2021, she was awarded the We Need Diverse Books Illustration Mentorship. She lives on the East Coast with her husband and two daughters.