Silver Linings by Fiona Woodcock
Published by Greenwillow Books on February 28, 2023
ISBN: 0062995901
Pages: 32
Genres: Realistic Fiction
Format: Picture Book Fiction
Source: MSL Book Review
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Pip and Parker are great friends who spend a lot of time together. Sometimes they spend time in companionable silence. Sometimes something goes wrong for one of them and they know what to do, which is to offer sympathy, a different perspective, a new activity, or a hug. The message in this picture book will resonate with kids who know that things can go wrong and that it’s nice to have an understanding friend by your side when they do. With a palette of teals and reds, the gentle artwork, created with hand-cut rubber stamps, stencils, acrylic paint, colored pencils, and oil pastels, highlights some of the small catastrophes and the silver linings that can come from the negative. Pip presents white and Parker is Black. A lovely story to use as a read aloud PreK-grade 2 classroom.

Reviewed by Jill O’Connor, Falmouth Middle School