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Reynolds, Alison

A New Friend for Marmalade

32 pp. | Little Simon | July, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-2046-4 $15.99

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Heath McKenzie. In a sweet follow-up to A Year with Marmalade, friends Ella and Maddy are annoyed when enthusiastic but destructive neighbor Toby ruins their building projects. After Toby saves their cat friend, Marmalade, from disaster, the girls abandon their annoyance and try Toby's scooter game instead. In his spacious, eye-catching line drawings, McKenzie leaves characters in black-and-white and skillfully adds color washes to surrounding images.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert