Illustrator’s agent: Linda Pratt, Wernick & Pratt. After nineteen years of writing and many rejections, she published The Goose Girl, the first book in her award-winning Books of Bayern series. Author’s agent: Barry Goldblatt, Barry Goldblatt Literary. Slightly wordier bio New York Times best selling author Shannon Hale started writing books at age ten and never stopped, eventually earning an MFA in Creative Writing. It’s a wonderfully observed portrait of finding one’s place in your world. Her digitally colored ink cartooning pulls substantial emotion out of everyday moments (such as Hale retreating to a playground shrub to cry, only to find another girl already there, doing the same) and the imagination-fueled games Hale was forever devising, presaging her writing career.
The carefully honed narration and dialogue give Pham plenty of room to work. Hale makes her own flaws evident, and that fairness extends to the bullies in her life, who lash out brutally at times, but whose insecurities and sadness are just as clear. The third book in Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham’s Real Friends graphic memoir series follows a young Shannon as she navigates her turbulent eighth-grade year, dealing with all of the insecurities and anxiety that come with growing up. Following up their mega-bestselling Real Friends and Best Friends graphic memoirs, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with Friends Forever, a story about learning to love yourself exactly as you are. My mom says that’s all anyone really needs”), negotiates forever-changing friendship politics, and tries to stay on the good side of her turbulent oldest sister. Over five chapters, readers follow a bookish and shy Hale from her earliest days in school through fifth grade, as she zealously guards her first friendship (“One good friend.
Hale’s childhood struggles with friends and family come to achingly poignant life in this candid graphic memoir.
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