“Best Friends for Frances” by Russell Hoban
Frances is a young badger who just can’t find anyone to play with her. Her friend Harold has decided that girls can’t go on walk-abouts and they can’t play baseball games either. Frances discovers that she has a built in best friend at home in her younger sister, Gloria. When she and her new best friend set out for a picnic outing, Harold decides that girls aren’t so bad after all, especially when they have such a fantastic looking picnic lunch. I wonder if Frances and Gloria will let a “boy” come on their fun day.
“Oliver Button is a Sissy” by Tomie dePaola
“Oliver Button was called a sissy. He didn’t like to do things that boys are supposed to do.” What kinds of things do you suppose that would be? “Instead he liked to walk in the woods and play jump rope. He liked to read books and draw pictures.” Even his papa called him a sissy. He was always trying to get Oliver to play baseball or football or basketball. One day Oliver gets a nice shiny pair of tap shoes. He gets so awesome at tap dancing that he decides to enter the talent show. Do you think Oliver will win and earn everyone’s respect? Do you think that his Dad and friends will finally accept him for who he is? Or will Oliver be doomed to be called a sissy his whole life?
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