When Panda gives Squirrel a “big bear hug,” for instance, Squirrel is moved, in more ways than one: “You’re squashing me! I won’t be much of a friend if I’m squashed.” The captivating text, ideal for reading aloud, can seem too earnest at times, but touches of humor save the day. The two misunderstand and bicker with each other, as many good friends in the real world do. Originally published in Dutch as two volumes, and translated by David Colmer, it chronicles nine mini-adventures of a panda named Panda and a squirrel named Squirrel. The characters are amiably odd-looking, and their changing facial expressions effectively reveal their personalities.Īnother animal friendship that would be unlikely in the real world but is completely believable in a storybook is presented in THE MOON IS A BALL (Gecko, 76 pp., $19.99, ages 5 to 8), written by Ed Franck and illustrated by Thé Tjong-Khing. I think that's the exercise most people are engaged in when they're writing a memoir.Collier’s drawings are at the same time stylish and cartoony, with a limited palette composed primarily of bright yellow, magenta and pale blue. It's not true that everything that's in this book is also everything that's true about our lives, and nothing else is happening. All of the stories in the book are very carefully selected anecdotes that illustrate the larger points that we're making.
That stuff is far away, and it's not a source of pain anymore, which I think both of us have always been really conscious of only sharing things publicly that have been resolved privately. The spoiler really is we're still friends, we're still very much big friends. Part of writing the book in one voice is that there was the absolute safety of arriving at this conclusion together. The only reason that we can share it publicly at all is that we have worked through it individually, and we have worked through it together in therapy, and, again, we have worked through it in writing the book.
We really had to muddle through a lot of the stuff that was painful in our relationship.
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