Iris and Walter, True Friends

by Guest, Elissa Haden

• ISBN13: 9780152021214
• ISBN10: 0152021213
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

Sometimes it takes two friends to solve a problem. So when Iris announces that she really wants to ride the wild horse Rain, Walter comes up with the perfect plan to help her. And when Walter has a terrible first day at school, Iris gives him a wonderful idea that makes school fun. After all, helping is what best friends do for each other!Join Iris and Walter in this charming second book in their new series. Elissa Haden Guest and Christine Davenier once again offer the delights that Publishers Weekly praised so lavishly in its review of the first installment of Iris and Walter's remarkable adventures: "Four gracefully paced chapters, stylish illustrations, and a design that allows plenty of breathing room add up to a knockout kickoff to a beginning reader series."

Author Biography

ELISSA HADEN GUEST is the author of Iris and Walter, a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and the coauthor of Girl Stuff: A Survival Guide to Growing Up. She lives with her family in San Francisco, California.

CHRISTINE DAVENIER has illustrated numerous children's books, including Iris and Walter, a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; Mabel Dancing; and Very Best (Almost) Friends: Poems of Friendship, a Riverbank Review Book of Distinction. She lives with her family in Paris.

Table of Contents

Dreaming of Rain	6	(8)
Riding Rain	14	(10)
The First Day of School	24	(10)
The Second Day of School	34