Guess My Friends (Post 67)
Guess my Friends (2000) is a rhyming story that isn't exactly a picture book. The text is similar in length and form to a rhyming picture book text, but the illustrations are line drawings. The verses describe an animal, giving it a name (such as "Smiley") without mentioning its species, and then invite the reader or listener to "guess my friend". Over the page is another verse with a picture and the solution. It's a cheerful little book in a small format, and as a bonus it could be used as a colouring book. Guess My Friends dates from a period when publishers were experimenting with different formats, offering high interest texts with a lot of illustration, but keeping the costs down by eschewing the traditional large format and interior colour. They were generally aimed at newly independent readers.
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Sally is Sally Odgers; author, manuscript assessor, editor, anthologist and reader. (Sally is me, by the way, and I am lots of other things too, but these are the relevant ones for now.)
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