Publisher Description
Award-winning author Toni Buzzeo's stories deliver engaging characters and gentle humor, helping to set young listeners on a path toward a lifetime of reading enjoyment. In One Cool Friend, Elliot spots his ideal pet on a visit to the aquarium-a penguin! Polite and proper, Elliot is sure that if he asks his father nicely, a dapper Antarctic bird will soon be in his care. But after Elliot's father agrees to his request, hijinks ensue as one misunderstanding leads to another until the story's surprising finale.
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“The book’s humor is built on gentle misunderstandings between father and son (when Elliot asks for a penguin, his father assumes he means a stuffed one from the aquarium gift shop)…The revelation that they’re not so dissimilar after all is about as sweet as it gets.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About Toni Buzzeo
Toni Buzzeo is the award-winning author of fifteen picture books with four more forthcoming. For sixteen years, she worked as a school librarian honing her knowledge of children’s literature. Combining this knowledge with her love of children, Toni writes about characters of all stripes (including dinosaurs, penguins, loons, ducklings, children, teachers, and librarians) who explore their worlds, their relationships, and themselves in a variety of settings. Toni is well known for her lively spirit and sense of humor.
About Chris Sorensen
Chris Sorenson has worked extensively as an actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He studied at the Rutgers Professional Actor Training Program and is an original member of the Present Company, producers of FringeNYC. The Thin Air Theatre Company of Colorado considers him their playwright-at-large and have produced ten of his plays over the past eleven years. His screenplays The Roswell Project and Classic Rock are both currently in production, and his horror script Suckerville is currently in development. He has received three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and his recording of Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix was selected by AudioFile as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2010.