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Making a Friend
Clean, cold, white snow! Snow for sledding. Snow for catching on your tongue. Snow for making a SNOWMAN! Is there anything as wonderful as SNOW? Is there any better friend than a SNOWMAN? Snow isn’t forever, though. The wind shifts, the weather warms and snow melts into spring. The Snowman has become something else—the fog, the rain. But, how can this boy forget his good f...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
October 4th 2011
by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Making a Friend is a story about a young boy who experiences friendship throughout the changing seasons. In winter he wakes to whiteness, snow, clean snow and decides to make a snowman. He gives his snowman a mouth, eyes, a nose, arms and a hat. He even gives his snowman his hat, and he loves his snowman. Everyday he goes out and plays with his snowman but the weather begins to get warmer and slowly his snowman melts. The young boy wonders where his friend went. Throughout the seasons the boy fi...more
Clean, cold, white snow! Snow for sledding. Snow for catching on your tongue. Snow for making a SNOWMAN! Is there anything as wonderful as SNOW? Is there any better friend than a SNOWMAN? Snow isn't forever, though. The wind shifts, the weather warms and snow melts into spring. The Snowman has become something else, the fog, the rain. But, how can this boy forget his good friend? He doesn't…and he doesn't have to. Bestselling author, Alison McGhee reminds us all that nothing that has been cared...more
I'd actually like to give this 3 1/2 stars. It was a nice story about a boy who makes a snowman and keeps it "alive" all through the winter until it melts in the spring. Then he wonders all spring, summer, and fall where the snowman is and if he'll come back in the winter again. I liked the boy's realization that the snowman became a part of the rain and the ocean, the fog and the frost. That bit could start a classroom discussion about the water cycle. But something is missing here, and I can't...more
Once autumn turns to winter, snow falls, and in timeless fashion, a boy builds a snowman, even giving him his own cap. He loves his snowman. But the passage of time is relentless, and spring weather melts the boy's frozen playmate. He wonders where his friend went, and finds traces of him in the pond and rain falling on the ocean. Once winter returns, though, he quickly builds another snow man. The story's message that "What you love will always be with you" is expressed in the illustrations, dr...more
Alison McGhee has a gift for the bittersweetly transcendent. In SOMEDAY, she imagines the life of a girl as she grows from baby to toddler to student to young adult to mother and beyond. In MAKING A FRIEND, a boy literally makes a friend—a snowman—only for the snowman to vanish with the coming spring. With the refrain, 'What you love will always be with you,' she subtly describes not only the permanence of love but also the transformation of the snowman into the various seasons' rain and mist an...more
A sweet book about the love a young boy has for his snowman. As the leaves fall from the trees and the first snow covers the ground, a boy plays in the snow and then makes a snowman who becomes his friend. When spring arrives, the snowman melts and the boy realizes that his snowman is "in the falling water and the rain upon the ocean." And as the seasons pass and winter returns, he realizes, "What you love will always be with you." A heartwarming story with lovely illustrations.
A beautifully illustrated story about a boy who makes a snowman, then it melts, and he waits all year to build another one. What is so nice about this story is how the author gently reminds readers that "what you love will always be with you". The illustrations are simple yet effective at conveying the changing seasons. This book would work well on separation of loved ones for whatever reason, as second book about snowmen, or for making friends.
Not since discovering Raymond Briggs' The Snowman, I have I fell for a snowman story this hard. I nearly teared up at the end. It's a delightful one that is the perfect combination of playfulness and thoughtfulness. The repeating message, "what you love will always be with you" is a comforting and gentle message that could be used to discuss loss and life cycles.
Highly recommended for winter gift giving, families and children ages 2-6.
Highly recommended for winter gift giving, families and children ages 2-6.
A boy makes a snowman friend...and when it melts is comforted in knowing that "What you love will always be with you..." He finds the snowman in the "falling water and the rain upon the ocean/fog in the hollow, and the frost on the window" through the changing seasons, until it snows again, and his snowman returns. A beautiful message about friendship, loss, and the seasons of life for children of all ages.
A simple book of friendship offers lessons on seasons and matter. A young boy (looking a bit like Crow Boy) dreams of winter and wakes up one morning to his world covered in white. In this winter wonderland, he carefully builds a snowman and in the process makes a friend. But his friend melts as winter turns to spring but the boy sees his friend in the fog, frost, and ice until winter returns.
"What you love will always be with you."
Sigh.
This one really gets going halfway through with a boy's reflections on where his friend the snowman has gone after melting. I love the connection of the melting snow to water to fog, that the snowman is still in the world in different forms, as well as in the boy's memory and experience and heart.
Great for a child who's lost something too.
Sigh.
This one really gets going halfway through with a boy's reflections on where his friend the snowman has gone after melting. I love the connection of the melting snow to water to fog, that the snowman is still in the world in different forms, as well as in the boy's memory and experience and heart.
Great for a child who's lost something too.
Making a Friend is an easy read. It's a story about a boy who makes a snowman in the winter and becomes friends with him. The story goes throughout all the different seasons and the boy makes friends with something new each season. The main moral to this book is "What you love will always be with you." The words are very easy and the sentences are not large at all. Cute story and cute illustrations.
This is an ok story about a young boy making a snowman and loving him, missing him when he melts and being happy when winter is about to return. A little overdone with tring to say and using these words: "Whatever you love will always be with you;" and then the author has thrown in the water cycle--a little much for my tastes and wish I hadn't made the purchase.
At first glance this is a book about a boy and a snowman, but really it's more poignant than that. The boy becomes very attached to his snowman, only to watch him melt and disappear. Then he realizes his snowman is is the rain, puddles, the ocean and even the fog. The next winter, his snowman returns with the first snowfall.
What you love will always be with you.
A young boy learns this lesson as he builds a snowman one winter and literally makes his new friend. But as the snow melts away, puddles and rain remind him that his friend is still with him until the next winter when he can build his snow friend again.
A young boy learns this lesson as he builds a snowman one winter and literally makes his new friend. But as the snow melts away, puddles and rain remind him that his friend is still with him until the next winter when he can build his snow friend again.
Poetic text. More than just a snowman story. When melted, the snowman is still near in the stream, the rain, the fog, and even in the frost on the window. The year passes, but "What you love will always be with you." Next winter, the little boy once again builds his snowman friend.
I love Marc Rosenthal's illustrations. And a very sweet book by Alison McGhee where a little boy makes a snowman friend and sees him in the water and fog and other weather even after the snow has disappeared...until he can help make him solid from snow once again the next year.
You have all what you need to make a friend and this friend will stay close till the end.
A story of a boy who made a snowman, and figured a way to seeing him in all four seasons. I pretty much do the same.
This book is dedicated to all my amazing friends in KSA.
A story of a boy who made a snowman, and figured a way to seeing him in all four seasons. I pretty much do the same.
This book is dedicated to all my amazing friends in KSA.
Are you good at making snowmen? Not most kids in Texas, we just don't get enough of the white stuff that often, so when it was a rather gruesome winter day in December, I read this book to my students. Do you know the best kind of snowman? Why?
A young boy builds a snowman and reflects on what happens after he melts. While I like the simple tie-in with the water cycle, the story is ultimately about friendship and missing a friend. Recommended for preschool and kindergarten students.
This is a sweet picture book that tells the story of a boy's friendship with his snowman throughout the year. It would be a good book to read with a child to help them understand loss. Lovely illustrations with simple text.
Sweet! Where does the snowman go after the winter ends? The repeated refrain, “What you love will always be with you,” might give one a clue. Love the illustrations by Marc Rosenthal. Recommended ages 4-8.
A simple story - Boys builds snowman - Snowman melts - The first snow - Boys builds snowman again. McGhee blends in the phrase, "What you love will always be with you", to give the story new meaning.
Not a lot of words, therefore perfect for a first grader to read. The best part of making a new friend is being able to cherish that memory forever, even long after they're gone.
Beautiful text and beautiful illustrations. I can't wait to read this to some primary students to show them just how simple a text can be to create something beautiful.
A beautiful rendition by gifted artists.
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A book about changing seasons, or death, or heaven, or something. It was a little strange and slightly off putting.
A sweet story about a boy who builds a snowman and wonders where his friend has gone when the snow melts away.
Apologies to Marc Rosenthal, whose illustrations I really like. The text was just too schmaltzy.
sweet story about a boy and a snowman and what happens when it melts away.
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Alison McGhee is the award-winning author of picture books, poems, and novels for all ages, including the young adult novel ALL RIVERS FLOW TO THE SEA and the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller SOMEDAY, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds. Alison McGhee lives in Minnesota.
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