Bink and Gollie and more stories about friendship

Product Description Product Description Perfect for kids as they wind down school, get ready for camp and look forward to spending the summertime with friends! BINK & GOLLIE…AND MORE STORIES ABOUT FRIENDSHIP is an all-new compilation headlined by Bink & Gollie, a story of two very different girls who are the best of friends, and followed by A Sick Day for Amos McGee, The Other Side, and Cat and Canary. Special Features The popular read-along function, plus interviews with authors and illustrators Tony Fucile, Philip and Erin Stead, and Jacqueline Woodson. Review Best Book of the Year --Publishers Weekly Best Childrens Book of the Year --Kirkus Reviews Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award --Oppenheim Toy Portfolio About the Actor Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) in Columbus, Ohio) is an American writer of books children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 and her Newbery Honor titles After Tupac & D Foster, Feathersand Show Way. Her work is filled with strong African-American themes, generally aimed at a young adult audience. She is an open lesbian with a lifelong partner and two children, a daughter named Toshi Georgianna and a son named Jackson-Leroi. After college, Woodson went to work for Kirchoff/Wohlberg, a children's packaging company. She helped to write the California standardized reading tests and caught the attention of a Liza Pulitzer-Voges, a children's book agent at the same company. Although the partnership did not work out, it did get her first manuscript out of a drawer. She then enrolled in Bunny Gable's children's book writing class at the New School, where Bebe Willoughby, an editor at Delacorte, heard a reading from Last Summer with Maizon and requested the manuscript. Delacorte bought the manuscript, but Willoughby left the company before editing it and so Wendy Lamb took over and saw Woodson's first six books published. Philip Stead is the author of the Caldecott Medal winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee, also named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2010 and a Publishers Weekly Best Children s Book of 2010, illustrated by his wife, Erin E. Stead (A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press, 2010). Philip, also an artist, both wrote and illustrated his debutCreamed Tuna Fish and Peas on Toast (A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press, 200