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Amy & Louis
The U.S. debut of an incredible new illustrator introduces two everyday friends whose closeness endures no matter how far apart they are.
"If I call Amy really loudly, she'll hear me, won't she?" Louie asked his mom.
His mom shook her head. "Amy is half a world away."
Amy and Louie are the best of friends. They build towers as high as the sky, they look for magical creature...more
"If I call Amy really loudly, she'll hear me, won't she?" Louie asked his mom.
His mom shook her head. "Amy is half a world away."
Amy and Louie are the best of friends. They build towers as high as the sky, they look for magical creature...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
2006
by Scholastic Australia
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Nov 21, 2009
Dolly
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
parents reading with their children
At the library today, we picked out a couple of books about moving just by chance, but I'm glad that we are starting to discuss this topic since we'll be moving ourselves in less than a year. This is a good story about close friends who are separated by half the world - far too common for military families. The two friends still find a way to stay close, which is a glimmer of hope to young children in the same situation. Gorgeous illustrations really capture the emotion of the tale. It's a great...more
I absolutely LOVED this book. Amy and Louise are best friends who create magical worlds together and keep in contact with a special call – ‘Coo-ee, Lou-ee’, ‘Coo-ee Am-ee’. Then Amy and her family move away, to the other side of the world, and the colour seeps out of Louis and Amy’s lives. Until, that is, Louise finds a way to use the special call to call Amy.
Amy and Louis is told beautifully in two ways. There’s the rhythmical, repeating language which shows the reader the special friendship be...more
Amy and Louis is told beautifully in two ways. There’s the rhythmical, repeating language which shows the reader the special friendship be...more
This is a very sweet book about two best friends named Louie and Amy. They did everything together. One-day Amy’s family moves half way around the world and both the kids become so sad. But one day Louie missed Amy so much that he cried out for her as loud as he could. By the next day Amy woke up with a dream that Louie called for her and while she is getting her day started Louie is at home sleep, smiling, thinking that Amy heard him. This would be a wonderful story to tell because it shows fri...more
Jun 08, 2012
Lisa Vegan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
children who are separated by distance from friends & other loved ones
Recommended to Lisa by:
Kathryn
Ah, this is a lovely story with lovely illustrations. Both story and pictures are so evocative of children’s play and children’s friendships, and also of feelings of loss, connection, and creative ways of coping too. It’s a perfect read aloud book. Highly recommended, particularly to children who are about to move or have moved and miss their friends or for children who’ve had or are about to have a friend move.
I did check the publication date (2006) not only because this book has a sort of vin...more
I did check the publication date (2006) not only because this book has a sort of vin...more
Amy and Louie are not only neighbors, they are the best of friends. Sometimes Louie climbs through the hole in the fence to visit Amy, and sometimes Amy climbs through the hole in the fence to visit Louie, but no matter where they are, they always have a lot of fun. Together they build “towers as high as the sky” and dig “holes deep enough to bury bears.” They dress up in costumes made from capes, rain boots, and the less ordinary, flippers, colanders and Kleenex boxes. They even have a secret l...more
BFF...is truly what this book is about. Best Friends Forever! What happens when your very best friend in the world moves half way around the world. Will yelling their name really loud work? When you are asleep, it is morning there...what can you do....well you have to read it...nice sweet twist at the end!
Jun 18, 2008
Nicole Fellows
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
picture-books
I chose to read this book for one of the picture books published in 2006. It is a very sweet story about two best friends who live half a world away from each other after one of them has had to move. They have a special call they would use together and even though they are far apart, they can see each other in their dreams at night.
I really like this story. It had great illustrations that were fun and creative. I really liked that the pictures changed from color to black and white when Amy's...more
I really like this story. It had great illustrations that were fun and creative. I really liked that the pictures changed from color to black and white when Amy's...more
Amy and Louie have a special call (Coo-ee!)but when Amy moves "half a world away' (probably the U.S.) that no longer seems effective. This is a gentle story about friendship and loss, beautifully illustrated by Freya Blackwood.
I was so charmed by Freya Blackwood's illustrations in "Maudie and Bear" I was eager to see other things she has done. I liked this story much better and the art on some pages is just breathtaking. I'm a fan!
Best friends torn apart find a way of coping and remembering one another. Sweet one but my son really didn't "get" it...
I do love the look and feel of Freya Blackwood's illustrations. Cute style. She captures the simplicity of suburban living, possibly a bit more the suburban living of my childhood, rather than now. I've always liked finding the shapes in clouds. The story is simple too. Amy and Louis are neighbours, who play with each other daily, until Amy moves away, to a nameless city on the other side of the world, that looks rather like New York. Amy and Louis miss each other, and seem to be too young to ha...more
A lovely book about a friendship challenged by distance.
Freya Blackwood does a fantastic job of the illustrations, using colour to highlight the emotions of the kids.
While is was lovely it didn't have the 'goose-bumping' effect the back-cover-blurb promised.
Surely a better way to rebuild their special bond wouldn't be to coo-ee to each other's dreams - but to pick up the phone, or email, or message them on Facebook, or follow each other's every move on Twitter...
Freya Blackwood does a fantastic job of the illustrations, using colour to highlight the emotions of the kids.
While is was lovely it didn't have the 'goose-bumping' effect the back-cover-blurb promised.
Surely a better way to rebuild their special bond wouldn't be to coo-ee to each other's dreams - but to pick up the phone, or email, or message them on Facebook, or follow each other's every move on Twitter...
Sweet story about young friends who are separated by a continent, but keep a connection. Nice illustrations.
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Level 2
Oct 08, 2007
Jill
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
k-2
Shelves:
fiction
Summary:
Amy and Louie are best friends and do everything together. Amy moves across the world and they miss each other. Louie calls Amy with their special call, and Amy has a dream about it.
Reflection:
Illustrations are perfect and set the mood for the book. Great story line. This will be a perfect book for children to relate to.
Themes:
moving, penpals, friends
Amy and Louie are best friends and do everything together. Amy moves across the world and they miss each other. Louie calls Amy with their special call, and Amy has a dream about it.
Reflection:
Illustrations are perfect and set the mood for the book. Great story line. This will be a perfect book for children to relate to.
Themes:
moving, penpals, friends
A beautiful book, a story of childhood friendship, my son loves this book and has me read it over and over again. We also have family far away, which helps to put the book into perspective. Beautifully illustrated.
Nov 10, 2008
Heather the Hillbilly Banjo Queen
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
childrens
So sweet. I liked that it had a little girl and a little boy being close friends. I probably liked that because I had a similar experience as a child. The pictures were beautiful.
its a good book about friendship for little kids.
lovely story about friends.
Nov 13, 2007
Angela
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
picturebooks,
read-in-2007
Very cute, great pictures.
Jun 02, 2013
Emily
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
toddlers-and-preschoolers
May 01, 2013
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"I was born in Young, a small town in south western NSW in 1950. After a few years we moved to Glen Innes, on the northern tablelands and then when I was ten we moved out west to Dubbo. We moved because my father was a schoolteacher and each change meant a promotion for him.
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